11:8 So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building 2 the city.
30:9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave 3 her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
1 tn Some (e.g., NIV) translate the preterite verb forms in this verse as past perfects (e.g., “had been closed”), for it seems likely that the sources of the water would have stopped before the waters receded.
2 tn The infinitive construct לִבְנֹת (livnot, “building”) here serves as the object of the verb “they ceased, stopped,” answering the question of what they stopped doing.
3 tn Heb “she took her servant Zilpah and gave her.” The verbs “took” and “gave” are treated as a hendiadys in the translation: “she gave.”