Genesis 28:15

28:15 I am with you! 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 30:31

30:31 So Laban asked, “What should I give you?” “You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied, “but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:


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).

tn Heb “and he said.” The referent (Laban) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn The negated imperfect verbal form has an obligatory nuance.

tn The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

tn Heb “If you do for me this thing.”

tn Heb “I will return, I will tend,” an idiom meaning “I will continue tending.”