Discovery BoxGenesis 1:10 
Context1:10 God called the dry ground “land” 1 and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good.
Genesis 2:11
Context2:11 The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through 2 the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 4:16
Context4:16 So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, 3 east of Eden.
Genesis 10:10
Context10:10 The primary regions 4 of his kingdom were Babel, 5 Erech, 6 Akkad, 7 and Calneh 8 in the land of Shinar. 9
Genesis 11:28
Context11:28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, 10 while his father Terah was still alive. 11
Genesis 21:21
Context21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. 12 His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt. 13
Genesis 32:3
Context32:3 Jacob sent messengers on ahead 14 to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region 15 of Edom.
Genesis 34:1
Context34:1 Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet 16 the young women 17 of the land.
Genesis 35:6
Context35:6 Jacob and all those who were with him arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel) 18 in the land of Canaan. 19
Genesis 36:20-21
Context36:20 These were the sons of Seir the Horite, 20 who were living in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 36:21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These were the chiefs of the Horites, the descendants 21 of Seir in the land of Edom.
Genesis 36:31
Context36:31 These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites: 22
Genesis 41:41
Context41:41 “See here,” Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I place 23 you in authority over all the land of Egypt.” 24
Genesis 41:52
Context41:52 He named the second child Ephraim, 25 saying, 26 “Certainly 27 God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”
Genesis 45:17
Context45:17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and go 28 to the land of Canaan!
Genesis 45:20
Context45:20 Don’t worry 29 about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’”
Genesis 45:25
Context45:25 So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. 30
Genesis 46:28
Context46:28 Jacob 31 sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. 32 So they came to the land of Goshen.
Genesis 47:28
Context47:28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years 33 of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.
Genesis 48:3
Context48:3 Jacob said to Joseph, “The sovereign God 34 appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
1 tn Heb “earth,” but here the term refers to the dry ground as opposed to the sea.
2 tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”
3 sn The name Nod means “wandering” in Hebrew (see vv. 12, 14).
4 tn Heb “beginning.” E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 67, suggests “mainstays,” citing Jer 49:35 as another text where the Hebrew noun is so used.
5 tn Or “Babylon.”
6 sn Erech (ancient Uruk, modern Warka), one of the most ancient civilizations, was located southeast of Babylon.
7 sn Akkad, or ancient Agade, was associated with Sargon and located north of Babylon.
8 tn No such place is known in Shinar (i.e., Babylonia). Therefore some have translated the Hebrew term כַלְנֵה (khalneh) as “all of them,” referring to the three previous names (cf. NRSV).
9 sn Shinar is another name for Babylonia.
10 sn The phrase of the Chaldeans is a later editorial clarification for the readers, designating the location of Ur. From all evidence there would have been no Chaldeans in existence at this early date; they are known in the time of the neo-Babylonian empire in the first millennium
11 tn Heb “upon the face of Terah his father.”
12 sn The wilderness of Paran is an area in the east central region of the Sinai peninsula, northeast from the traditional site of Mt. Sinai and with the Arabah and the Gulf of Aqaba as its eastern border.
13 tn Heb “And his mother took for him a wife from the land of Egypt.”
14 tn Heb “before him.”
15 tn Heb “field.”
16 tn Heb “went out to see.” The verb “to see,” followed by the preposition בְּ (bÿ), here has the idea of “look over.” The young girl wanted to meet these women and see what they were like.
17 tn Heb “daughters.”
18 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
19 tn Heb “and Jacob came to Luz which is in the land of Canaan – it is Bethel – he and all the people who were with him.”
20 sn The same pattern of sons, grandsons, and chiefs is now listed for Seir the Horite. “Seir” is both the name of the place and the name of the ancestor of these tribes. The name “Horite” is probably not to be identified with “Hurrian.” The clan of Esau settled in this area, intermarried with these Horites and eventually dispossessed them, so that they all became known as Edomites (Deut 2:12 telescopes the whole development).
21 tn Or “sons.”
22 tn Or perhaps “before any Israelite king ruled over [them].”
23 tn The translation assumes that the perfect verbal form is descriptive of a present action. Another option is to understand it as rhetorical, in which case Pharaoh describes a still future action as if it had already occurred in order to emphasize its certainty. In this case one could translate “I have placed” or “I will place.” The verb נָתַן (natan) is translated here as “to place in authority [over].”
24 sn Joseph became the grand vizier of the land of Egypt. See W. A. Ward, “The Egyptian Office of Joseph,” JSS 5 (1960): 144-50; and R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 129-31.
25 sn The name Ephraim (אֶפְרַיִם, ’efrayim), a form of the Hebrew verb פָּרָה (parah), means “to bear fruit.” The theme of fruitfulness is connected with this line of the family from Rachel (30:2) on down (see Gen 49:22, Deut 33:13-17, and Hos 13:15). But there is some difficulty with the name “Ephraim” itself. It appears to be a dual, for which F. Delitzsch simply said it meant “double fruitfulness” (New Commentary on Genesis, 2:305). G. J. Spurrell suggested it was a diphthongal pronunciation of a name ending in -an or -am, often thought to be dual suffixes (Notes on the text of the book of Genesis, 334). Many, however, simply connect the name to the territory of Ephraim and interpret it to be “fertile land” (C. Fontinoy, “Les noms de lieux en -ayim dans la Bible,” UF 3 [1971]: 33-40). The dual would then be an old locative ending. There is no doubt that the name became attached to the land in which the tribe settled, and it is possible that is where the dual ending came from, but in this story it refers to Joseph’s God-given fruitfulness.
26 tn The word “saying” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
27 tn Or “for.”
28 tn Heb “and go! Enter!”
29 tn Heb “let not your eye regard.”
30 tn Heb “and they entered the land of Canaan to their father.”
31 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
32 tn Heb “to direct before him to Goshen.”
33 tn Heb “the days of the years.”
34 tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.
