Genesis 5:4

5:4 The length of time Adam lived ¹  after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had ²  other ³  sons and daughters.

Genesis 14:15

14:15 Then, during the night, ⁴  Abram ⁵  divided his forces ⁶  against them and defeated them. He chased them as far as Hobah, which is north ⁷  of Damascus.

Genesis 18:1

Three Special Visitors

18:1 The Lord appeared to Abraham ⁸  by the oaks ⁹  of Mamre while ¹⁰  he was sitting at the entrance ¹¹  to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

Genesis 31:10

31:10 “Once ¹²  during breeding season I saw ¹³  in a dream that the male goats mating with ¹⁴  the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Genesis 32:22

32:22 During the night Jacob quickly took ¹⁵  his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons ¹⁶  and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. ¹⁷ 

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¹ tn Heb “The days of Adam.”

² tn Heb “he fathered.”

³ tn The word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn The Hebrew text simply has “night” as an adverbial accusative.

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “he divided himself…he and his servants.”

⁷ tn Heb “left.” Directions in ancient Israel were given in relation to the east rather than the north.

⁸ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Or “terebinths.”

¹⁰ tn The disjunctive clause here is circumstantial to the main clause.

¹¹ tn The Hebrew noun translated “entrance” is an adverbial accusative of place.

¹² tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator, “and it happened at the time of.”

¹³ tn Heb “in the time of the breeding of the flock I lifted up my eyes and I saw.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “going up on,” that is, mounting for intercourse.

¹⁵ tn Heb “and he arose in that night and he took.” The first verb is adverbial, indicating that he carried out the crossing right away.

¹⁶ tn The Hebrew term used here is יֶלֶד (yeled) which typically describes male offspring. Some translations render the term “children” but this is a problem because by this time Jacob had twelve children in all, including one daughter, Dinah, born to Leah (Gen 30:21). Benjamin, his twelfth son and thirteenth child, was not born until later (Gen 35:16-19).

¹⁷ sn Hebrew narrative style often includes a summary statement of the whole passage followed by a more detailed report of the event. Here v. 22 is the summary statement, while v. 23 begins the detailed account.