Genesis 18:26

18:26 So the Lord replied, “If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Genesis 24:38

24:38 but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find ¹  a wife for my son.’

Genesis 27:20

27:20 But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world ²  did you find it so quickly, ³  my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” ⁴  he replied. ⁵ 

Genesis 32:5

32:5 I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent ⁶  this message ⁷  to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

Genesis 33:8

33:8 Esau ⁸  then asked, “What did you intend ⁹  by sending all these herds to meet me?” ¹⁰  Jacob ¹¹  replied, “To find favor in your sight, my lord.”

Genesis 34:11

34:11 Then Shechem said to Dinah’s ¹²  father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me ¹³  I’ll give. ¹⁴ 

Genesis 38:22

38:22 So he returned to Judah and said, “I couldn’t find her. Moreover, the men of the place said, ‘There has been no cult prostitute here.’”

Genesis 41:38

41:38 So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, ¹⁵  one in whom the Spirit of God is present?” ¹⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “but to the house of my father you must go and to my family and you must take a wife for my son.”

² tn Heb “What is this?” The enclitic pronoun “this” adds emphasis to the question, which is comparable to the English rhetorical question, “How in the world?”

³ tn Heb “you hastened to find.” In translation the infinitive becomes the main verb and the first verb becomes adverbial.

⁴ tn Heb “caused to meet before me.”

⁵ tn Heb “and he said, ‘Because the Lord your God….’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Or “I am sending.” The form is a preterite with the vav consecutive; it could be rendered as an English present tense – as the Hebrew perfect/preterite allows – much like an epistolary aorist in Greek. The form assumes the temporal perspective of the one who reads the message.

⁷ tn The words “this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “Who to you?”

¹⁰ tn Heb “all this camp which I met.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Heb “her”; the referent (Dinah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Heb “whatever you say.”

¹⁴ tn Or “pay.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “like this,” but the referent could be misunderstood to be a man like that described by Joseph in v. 33, rather than Joseph himself. For this reason the proper name “Joseph” has been supplied in the translation.

¹⁶ tn The rhetorical question expects the answer “No, of course not!”