Genesis 42:10

42:10 But they exclaimed, ¹  “No, my lord! Your servants have come to buy grain for food!

Genesis 32:2

32:2 When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, ²  “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim. ³ 

Genesis 30:2

30:2 Jacob became furious ⁴  with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?” ⁵ 

Genesis 37:33

37:33 He recognized it and exclaimed, “It is my son’s tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! ⁶  Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

Genesis 26:10

26:10 Then Abimelech exclaimed, “What in the world have you done to us? ⁷  One of the men ⁸  might easily have had sexual relations with ⁹  your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

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¹ tn Heb “and they said to him.” In context this is best understood as an exclamation.

² tn Heb “and Jacob said when he saw them.”

³ sn The name Mahanaim apparently means “two camps.” Perhaps the two camps were those of God and of Jacob.

⁴ tn Heb “and the anger of Jacob was hot.”

⁵ tn Heb “who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb.”

⁶ sn A wild animal has eaten him. Jacob draws this conclusion on his own without his sons actually having to lie with their words (see v. 20). Dipping the tunic in the goat’s blood was the only deception needed.

⁷ tn Heb “What is this you have done to us?” The Hebrew demonstrative pronoun “this” adds emphasis: “What in the world have you done to us?” (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 24, §118).

⁸ tn Heb “people.”

⁹ tn The Hebrew verb means “to lie down.” Here the expression “lie with” or “sleep with” is euphemistic for “have sexual relations with.”