23:17 So Abraham secured 1 Ephron’s field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border,
31:1 Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were complaining, 2 “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich 3 at our father’s expense!” 4
1 tn Heb “And it was conveyed.” The recipient, Abraham (mentioned in the Hebrew text at the beginning of v. 18) has been placed here in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Heb “and he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying.”
3 sn The Hebrew word translated “gotten rich” (כָּבוֹד, cavod) has the basic idea of “weight.” If one is heavy with possessions, then that one is wealthy (13:2). Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph all became wealthy when they left the promised land. Jacob’s wealth foreshadows what will happen to Israel when they leave the land of Egypt (Exod 12:35-38).
4 tn Heb “and from that which belonged to our father he has gained all this wealth.”
5 tn Heb “arose, stood”; which here suggests that they stood by him in his time of grief.
6 tn Heb “and he said, ‘Indeed I will go down to my son mourning to Sheol.’” Sheol was viewed as the place where departed spirits went after death.
7 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.