Genesis 9:9

9:9 “Look! I now confirm ¹  my covenant with you and your descendants after you ² 

Genesis 13:5

13:5 Now Lot, who was traveling ³  with Abram, also had ⁴  flocks, herds, and tents.

Genesis 13:13

13:13 (Now ⁵  the people ⁶  of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.) ⁷ 

Genesis 16:16

16:16 (Now ⁸  Abram was 86 years old ⁹  when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.) ¹⁰ 

Genesis 21:5

21:5 (Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.) ¹¹ 

Genesis 24:1

The Wife for Isaac

24:1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, ¹²  and the Lord had blessed him ¹³  in everything.

Genesis 24:62

24:62 Now ¹⁴  Isaac came from ¹⁵  Beer Lahai Roi, ¹⁶  for ¹⁷  he was living in the Negev. ¹⁸ 

Genesis 29:16

29:16 (Now Laban had two daughters; ¹⁹  the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

Genesis 43:10

43:10 But if we had not delayed, we could have traveled there and back ²⁰  twice by now!”

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¹ tn Heb “I, look, I confirm.” The particle הִנְנִי (hinni) used with the participle מֵקִים (meqim) gives the sense of immediacy or imminence, as if to say, “Look! I am now confirming.”

² tn The three pronominal suffixes (translated “you,” “your,” and “you”) are masculine plural. As v. 8 indicates, Noah and his sons are addressed.

³ tn Heb “was going.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew idiom is “to Lot…there was,” the preposition here expressing possession.

⁵ tn Here is another significant parenthetical clause in the story, signaled by the vav (וו) disjunctive (translated “now”) on the noun at the beginning of the clause.

⁶ tn Heb “men.” However, this is generic in sense; it is unlikely that only the male residents of Sodom were sinners.

⁷ tn Heb “wicked and sinners against the Lord exceedingly.” The description of the sinfulness of the Sodomites is very emphatic. First, two nouns are used to form a hendiadys: “wicked and sinners” means “wicked sinners,” the first word becoming adjectival. The text is saying these were no ordinary sinners; they were wicked sinners, the type that cause pain for others. Then to this phrase is added “against the Lord,” stressing their violation of the laws of heaven and their culpability. Finally, to this is added מְאֹד (mÿ’od, “exceedingly,” translated here as “extremely”).

⁸ tn The disjunctive clause gives information that is parenthetical to the narrative.

⁹ tn Heb “the son of eighty-six years.”

¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text adds, “for Abram.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons; it is somewhat redundant given the three occurrences of Abram’s name in this and the previous verse.

¹¹ tn The parenthetical disjunctive clause underscores how miraculous this birth was. Abraham was 100 years old. The fact that the genealogies give the ages of the fathers when their first son is born shows that this was considered a major milestone in one’s life (G. J. Wenham, Genesis [WBC], 2:80).

¹² tn Heb “days.”

¹³ tn Heb “Abraham.” The proper name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.

¹⁴ tn The disjunctive clause switches the audience’s attention to Isaac and signals a new episode in the story.

¹⁵ tn Heb “from the way of.”

¹⁶ sn The Hebrew name Beer Lahai Roi (בְּאֵר לַחַי רֹאִי, bÿ’er lakhay ro’i) means “The well of the Living One who sees me.” See Gen 16:14.

¹⁷ tn This disjunctive clause is explanatory.

¹⁸ tn Or “the South [country].”

sn Negev is the name for the southern desert region in the land of Canaan.

¹⁹ tn Heb “and to Laban [there were] two daughters.” The disjunctive clause (introduced here by a conjunction and a prepositional phrase) provides supplemental material that is important to the story. Since this material is parenthetical in nature, vv. 16-17 have been set in parentheses in the translation.

²⁰ tn Heb “we could have returned.”