Genesis 26:11

26:11 So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches ¹  this man or his wife will surely be put to death.” ² 

Genesis 27:16

27:16 She put the skins of the young goats ³  on his hands ⁴  and the smooth part of his neck.

Genesis 39:22

39:22 The warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care. He was in charge of whatever they were doing. ⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “strikes.” Here the verb has the nuance “to harm in any way.” It would include assaulting the woman or killing the man.

² tn The use of the infinitive absolute before the imperfect makes the construction emphatic.

³ tn In the Hebrew text the object (“the skins of the young goats”) precedes the verb. The disjunctive clause draws attention to this key element in the subterfuge.

⁴ tn The word “hands” probably includes the forearms here. How the skins were attached is not specified in the Hebrew text; cf. NLT “she made him a pair of gloves.”

⁵ tn Heb “all which they were doing there, he was doing.” This probably means that Joseph was in charge of everything that went on in the prison.