Discovery BoxGenesis 1:29 
Context1:29 Then God said, “I now 1 give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 2
Genesis 7:4
Context7:4 For in seven days 3 I will cause it to rain 4 on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”
Genesis 11:9
Context11:9 That is why its name was called 5 Babel 6 – because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
Genesis 19:1
Context19:1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while 7 Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. 8 When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.
Genesis 43:5
Context43:5 But if you will not send him, we won’t go down there because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”
1 tn The text uses הִנֵּה (hinneh), often archaically translated “behold.” It is often used to express the dramatic present, the immediacy of an event – “Look, this is what I am doing!”
2 sn G. J. Wenham (Genesis [WBC], 1:34) points out that there is nothing in the passage that prohibits the man and the woman from eating meat. He suggests that eating meat came after the fall. Gen 9:3 may then ratify the postfall practice of eating meat rather than inaugurate the practice, as is often understood.
3 tn Heb “for seven days yet,” meaning “after [or “in”] seven days.”
4 tn The Hiphil participle מַמְטִיר (mamtir, “cause to rain”) here expresses the certainty of the act in the imminent future.
5 tn The verb has no expressed subject and so can be rendered as a passive in the translation.
6 sn Babel. Here is the climax of the account, a parody on the pride of Babylon. In the Babylonian literature the name bab-ili meant “the gate of God,” but in Hebrew it sounds like the word for “confusion,” and so retained that connotation. The name “Babel” (בָּבֶל, bavel) and the verb translated “confused” (בָּלַל, balal) form a paronomasia (sound play). For the many wordplays and other rhetorical devices in Genesis, see J. P. Fokkelman, Narrative Art in Genesis (SSN).
7 tn The disjunctive clause is temporal here, indicating what Lot was doing at the time of their arrival.
8 tn Heb “sitting in the gate of Sodom.” The phrase “the gate of Sodom” has been translated “the city’s gateway” for stylistic reasons.
sn The expression sitting in the city’s gateway may mean that Lot was exercising some type of judicial function (see the use of the idiom in 2 Sam 19:8; Jer 26:10; 38:7; 39:3).
