Genesis 19:31

19:31 Later the older daughter said¹ to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby² to have sexual relations with us,³ according to the way of all the world.

Genesis 23:6

23:6 “Listen, sir,⁴ you are a mighty prince⁵ among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you⁶ from burying your dead.”

Genesis 31:32

31:32 Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death!⁷ In the presence of our relatives⁸ identify whatever is yours and take it.”⁹ (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)¹⁰

Genesis 34:16

34:16 Then we will give¹¹ you our daughters to marry,¹² and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

Genesis 42:13

42:13 They replied, “Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers.¹³ We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time,¹⁴ and one is no longer alive.”¹⁵

Genesis 42:32

42:32 We are from a family of twelve brothers; we are the sons of one father.¹⁶ One is no longer alive,¹⁷ and the youngest is with our father at this time¹⁸ in the land of Canaan.’

Genesis 43:8

43:8 Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me and we will go immediately.¹⁹ Then we will live²⁰ and not die – we and you and our little ones.

Genesis 43:21

43:21 But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money – the full amount²¹ – in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it.²²

Genesis 44:8

44:8 Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

Genesis 44:31

44:31 When he sees the boy is not with us,²³ he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 47:15

47:15 When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was used up, all the Egyptians²⁴ came to Joseph and said, “Give us food! Why should we die²⁵ before your very eyes because our money has run out?”

¹tn Heb “and the firstborn said.”

²tn Or perhaps “on earth,” in which case the statement would be hyperbolic; presumably there had been some men living in the town of Zoar to which Lot and his daughters had initially fled.

³tn Heb “to enter upon us.” This is a euphemism for sexual relations.

⁴tn Heb “Hear us, my lord.”

⁵tn Heb “prince of God.” The divine name may be used here as a means of expressing the superlative, “mighty prince.” The word for “prince” probably means “tribal chief” here. See M. H. Gottstein, “Nasi’ ‘elohim (Gen 23:6),” VT 3 (1953) 298-99; and D. W. Thomas, “Consideration of Some Unusual Ways of Expressing the Superlative in Hebrew,” VT 3 (1953) 215-16.

⁶tn The phrase “to prevent you” has been added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷tn Heb “With whomever you find your gods, he will not live.”

⁸tn Heb “brothers.”

⁹tn Heb “recognize for yourself what is with me and take for yourself.”

¹⁰tn The disjunctive clause (introduced here by a vav [ו] conjunction) provides supplemental material that is important to the story. Since this material is parenthetical in nature, it has been placed in parentheses in the translation.

¹¹tn The perfect verbal form with the vav (ו) consecutive introduces the apodosis of the conditional sentence.

¹²tn The words “to marry” (and the words “as wives” in the following clause) are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹³tn Heb “twelve [were] your servants, brothers [are] we.”

¹⁴tn Heb “today.”

¹⁵tn Heb “and the one is not.”

¹⁶tn Heb “twelve [were] we, brothers, sons of our father [are] we.”

¹⁷tn Heb “the one is not.”

¹⁸tn Heb “today.”

¹⁹tn Heb “and we will rise up and we will go.” The first verb is adverbial and gives the expression the sense of “we will go immediately.”

²⁰tn After the preceding cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form (either imperfect or cohortative) with the prefixed conjunction here indicates purpose or result.

²¹tn Heb “in its weight.”

²²tn Heb “brought it back in our hand.”

²³tn Heb “when he sees that there is no boy.”

²⁴tn Heb “all Egypt.” The expression is a metonymy and refers to all the people of Egypt.

²⁵tn The imperfect verbal form has a deliberative force here.