Genesis 27:33

27:33 Isaac began to shake violently ¹  and asked, “Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. ²  He will indeed be blessed!”

Genesis 41:46

41:46 Now Joseph was 30 years old ³  when he began serving ⁴  Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by ⁵  Pharaoh and was in charge of ⁶  all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:54

41:54 Then the seven years of famine began, ⁷  just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.

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¹ tn Heb “and Isaac trembled with a great trembling to excess.” The verb “trembled” is joined with a cognate accusative, which is modified by an adjective “great,” and a prepositional phrase “to excess.” All of this is emphatic, showing the violence of Isaac’s reaction to the news.

² tn Heb “Who then is he who hunted game and brought [it] to me so that I ate from all before you arrived and blessed him?”

³ tn Heb “a son of thirty years.”

⁴ tn Heb “when he stood before.”

⁵ tn Heb “went out from before.”

⁶ tn Heb “and he passed through all the land of Egypt”; this phrase is interpreted by JPS to mean that Joseph “emerged in charge of the whole land.”

⁷ tn Heb “began to arrive.”