Genesis 20:3

20:3 But God appeared 1  to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead 2  because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.” 3 

Genesis 28:3

28:3 May the sovereign God 4  bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! 5  Then you will become 6  a large nation. 7 

Genesis 41:39

41:39 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning 8  as you are!

Genesis 49:3

49:3 Reuben, you are my firstborn,

my might and the beginning of my strength,

outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.

1 tn Heb “came.”

2 tn Heb “Look, you [are] dead.” The Hebrew construction uses the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with a second person pronominal particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with by the participle. It is a highly rhetorical expression.

3 tn Heb “and she is owned by an owner.” The disjunctive clause is causal or explanatory in this case.

4 tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.

5 tn Heb “and make you fruitful and multiply you.” See Gen 17:6, 20 for similar terminology.

6 tn The perfect verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here indicates consequence. The collocation הָיָה + preposition לְ (hayah + lÿ) means “become.”

7 tn Heb “an assembly of peoples.”

8 tn Heb “as discerning and wise.” The order has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.