Genesis 30:30
30:30 Indeed, 1 you had little before I arrived, 2 but now your possessions have increased many times over. 3 The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. 4 But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” 5
Genesis 31:41
31:41 This was my lot 6 for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave 7 for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!
Genesis 43:34
43:34 He gave them portions of the food set before him, 8 but the portion for Benjamin was five times greater than the portions for any of the others. They drank with Joseph until they all became drunk. 9
1 tn Or “for.”
2 tn Heb “before me.”
3 tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”
4 tn Heb “at my foot.”
5 tn Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”
6 tn Heb “this to me.”
7 tn Heb “served you,” but in this accusatory context the meaning is more “worked like a slave.”
8 tn Heb “and he lifted up portions from before his face to them.”
9 tn Heb “and they drank and were intoxicated with him” (cf. NIV “drank freely with him”; NEB “grew merry”; NRSV “were merry”). The brothers were apparently relaxed and set at ease, despite Joseph’s obvious favoritism toward Benjamin.