Genesis 28:15

28:15 I am with you! ¹  I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”

Genesis 30:30

30:30 Indeed, ²  you had little before I arrived, ³  but now your possessions have increased many times over. ⁴  The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. ⁵  But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” ⁶ 

Genesis 35:3

35:3 Let us go up at once ⁷  to Bethel. Then I will make ⁸  an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress ⁹  and has been with me wherever I went.” ¹⁰ 

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¹ tn Heb “Look, I [am] with you.” The clause is a nominal clause; the verb to be supplied could be present (as in the translation) or future, “Look, I [will be] with you” (cf. NEB).

² tn Or “for.”

³ tn Heb “before me.”

⁴ tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”

⁵ tn Heb “at my foot.”

⁶ tn Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”

⁷ tn Heb “let us arise and let us go up.” The first cohortative gives the statement a sense of urgency.

⁸ tn The cohortative with the prefixed conjunction here indicates purpose or consequence.

⁹ tn Heb “day of distress.” See Ps 20:1 which utilizes similar language.

¹⁰ tn Heb “in the way in which I went.” Jacob alludes here to God’s promise to be with him (see Gen 28:20).