Genesis 8:12

8:12 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, ¹  but it did not return to him this time. ² 

Genesis 21:1

The Birth of Isaac

21:1 The Lord visited ³  Sarah just as he had said he would and did ⁴  for Sarah what he had promised. ⁵ 

Genesis 28:16

28:16 Then Jacob woke up ⁶  and thought, ⁷  “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”

Genesis 38:10

38:10 What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord ⁸  killed him too.

Genesis 42:23

42:23 (Now ⁹  they did not know that Joseph could understand them, ¹⁰  for he was speaking through an interpreter.) ¹¹ 

Genesis 43:6

43:6 Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble ¹²  on me by telling ¹³  the man you had one more brother?”

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¹ tn The word “again” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “it did not again return to him still.” For a study of this section of the flood narrative, see W. O. E. Oesterley, “The Dove with the Olive Leaf (Gen VIII 8–11),” ExpTim 18 (1906/07): 377-78.

³ sn The Hebrew verb translated “visit” (פָּקַד, paqad ) often describes divine intervention for blessing or cursing; it indicates God’s special attention to an individual or a matter, always with respect to his people’s destiny. He may visit (that is, destroy) the Amalekites; he may visit (that is, deliver) his people in Egypt. Here he visits Sarah, to allow her to have the promised child. One’s destiny is changed when the Lord “visits.” For a more detailed study of the term, see G. André, Determining the Destiny (ConBOT).

⁴ tn Heb “and the Lord did.” The divine name has not been repeated here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Heb “spoken.”

⁶ tn Heb “woke up from his sleep.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn Heb “said.”

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

⁹ tn The disjunctive clause provides supplemental information that is important to the story.

¹⁰ tn “was listening.” The brothers were not aware that Joseph could understand them as they spoke the preceding words in their native language.

¹¹ tn Heb “for [there was] an interpreter between them.” On the meaning of the word here translated “interpreter” see HALOT 590 s.v. מֵלִיץ and M. A. Canney, “The Hebrew melis (Prov IX 12; Gen XLII 2-3),” AJSL 40 (1923/24): 135-37.

¹² tn The verb may even have a moral connotation here, “Why did you do evil to me?”

¹³ tn The infinitive construct here explains how they brought trouble on Jacob.