Genesis 21:32

21:32 So they made a treaty ¹  at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned ²  to the land of the Philistines. ³ 

Genesis 27:30

27:30 Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left ⁴  his father’s ⁵  presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt. ⁶ 

Genesis 31:55

31:55 (32:1) ⁷  Early in the morning Laban kissed ⁸  his grandchildren ⁹  and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home. ¹⁰ 

Genesis 32:6

32:6 The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.”

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 42:29

42:29 They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

Genesis 43:12

43:12 Take double the money with you; ¹¹  you must take back ¹²  the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks – perhaps it was an oversight.

Genesis 50:14

50:14 After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.

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¹ tn Heb “cut a covenant.”

² tn Heb “arose and returned.”

³ sn The Philistines mentioned here may not be ethnically related to those who lived in Palestine in the time of the judges and the united monarchy. See D. M. Howard, “Philistines,” Peoples of the Old Testament World, 238.

⁴ tn The use of the infinitive absolute before the finite form of the verb makes the construction emphatic.

⁵ tn Heb “the presence of Isaac his father.” The repetition of the proper name (“Isaac”) was

⁶ tn Heb “and Esau his brother came from his hunt.”

⁷ sn Beginning with 31:55, the verse numbers in the English Bible through 32:32 differ by one from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 31:55 ET = 32:1 HT, 32:1 ET = 32:2 HT, etc., through 32:32 ET = 32:33 HT. From 33:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

⁸ tn Heb “and Laban got up early in the morning and he kissed.”

⁹ tn Heb “his sons.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “to his place.”

¹¹ tn Heb “in your hand.”

¹² tn Heb “take back in your hand.” The imperfect verbal form probably has an injunctive or obligatory force here, since Jacob is instructing his sons.