Discovery BoxGenesis 11:29 
Context11:29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, 1 and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah; 2 she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
Genesis 19:31
Context19:31 Later the older daughter said 3 to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby 4 to have sexual relations with us, 5 according to the way of all the world.
Genesis 19:33
Context19:33 So that night they made their father drunk with wine, 6 and the older daughter 7 came and had sexual relations with her father. 8 But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up. 9
Genesis 24:15
Context24:15 Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah 10 with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor). 11
Genesis 29:10
Context29:10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, 12 and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he 13 went over 14 and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban. 15
Genesis 34:19
Context34:19 The young man did not delay in doing what they asked 16 because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah 17 badly. (Now he was more important 18 than anyone in his father’s household.) 19
Genesis 36:18
Context36:18 These were the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah. These were the chiefs descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
Genesis 38:12
Context38:12 After some time 20 Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with 21 his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
Genesis 38:24
Context38:24 After three months Judah was told, 22 “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution, 23 and as a result she has become pregnant.” 24 Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”
Genesis 41:45
Context41:45 Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah. 25 He also gave him Asenath 26 daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, 27 to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of 28 all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 46:15
Context46:15 These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters numbered thirty-three in all. 29
1 sn The name Sarai (a variant spelling of “Sarah”) means “princess” (or “lady”). Sharratu was the name of the wife of the moon god Sin. The original name may reflect the culture out of which the patriarch was called, for the family did worship other gods in Mesopotamia.
2 sn The name Milcah means “Queen.” But more to the point here is the fact that Malkatu was a title for Ishtar, the daughter of the moon god. If the women were named after such titles (and there is no evidence that this was the motivation for naming the girls “Princess” or “Queen”), that would not necessarily imply anything about the faith of the two women themselves.
3 tn Heb “and the firstborn said.”
4 tn Or perhaps “on earth,” in which case the statement would be hyperbolic; presumably there had been some men living in the town of Zoar to which Lot and his daughters had initially fled.
5 tn Heb “to enter upon us.” This is a euphemism for sexual relations.
6 tn Heb “drink wine.”
7 tn Heb “the firstborn.”
8 tn Heb “and the firstborn came and lied down with her father.” The expression “lied down with” here and in the following verses is a euphemism for sexual relations.
9 tn Heb “and he did not know when she lay down and when she arose.”
10 tn Heb “Look, Rebekah was coming out!” Using the participle introduced with הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”), the narrator dramatically transports the audience back into the event and invites them to see Rebekah through the servant’s eyes.
11 tn Heb “Look, Rebekah was coming out – [she] who was born to Bethuel, the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, the brother of Abraham – and her jug [was] on her shoulder.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.
12 tn Heb “Laban, the brother of his mother” (twice in this verse).
13 tn Heb “Jacob.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
14 tn Heb “drew near, approached.”
15 tn Heb “Laban, the brother of his mother.” The text says nothing initially about the beauty of Rachel. But the reader is struck by the repetition of “Laban the brother of his mother.” G. J. Wenham is no doubt correct when he observes that Jacob’s primary motive at this stage is to ingratiate himself with Laban (Genesis [WBC], 2:231).
16 tn Heb “doing the thing.”
17 tn Heb “Jacob’s daughter.” The proper name “Dinah” is supplied in the translation for clarity.
18 tn The Hebrew verb כָּבֵד (kaved), translated “was…important,” has the primary meaning “to be heavy,” but here carries a secondary sense of “to be important” (that is, “heavy” in honor or respect).
19 tn The parenthetical disjunctive clause explains why the community would respond to him (see vv. 20-24).
20 sn After some time. There is not enough information in the narrative to know how long this was. The text says “the days increased.” It was long enough for Shelah to mature and for Tamar to realize she would not have him.
21 tn Heb “and he went up to the shearers of his sheep, he and.”
22 tn Heb “it was told to Judah, saying.”
23 tn Or “has been sexually promiscuous.” The verb may refer here to loose or promiscuous activity, not necessarily prostitution.
24 tn Heb “and also look, she is with child by prostitution.”
25 sn The meaning of Joseph’s Egyptian name, Zaphenath-Paneah, is uncertain. Many recent commentators have followed the proposal of G. Steindorff that it means “the god has said, ‘he will live’” (“Der Name Josephs Saphenat-Pa‘neach,” ZÄS 31 [1889]: 41-42); others have suggested “the god speaks and lives” (see BDB 861 s.v. צָפְנָת פַּעְנֵחַ); “the man he knows” (J. Vergote, Joseph en Égypte, 145); or “Joseph [who is called] áIp-àankh” (K. A. Kitchen, NBD3 1262).
26 sn The name Asenath may mean “she belongs to the goddess Neit” (see HALOT 74 s.v. אָֽסְנַת). A novel was written at the beginning of the first century entitled Joseph and Asenath, which included a legendary account of the conversion of Asenath to Joseph’s faith in Yahweh. However, all that can be determined from this chapter is that their children received Hebrew names. See also V. Aptowitzer, “Asenath, the Wife of Joseph – a Haggadic Literary-Historical Study,” HUCA 1 (1924): 239-306.
27 sn On (also in v. 50) is another name for the city of Heliopolis.
28 tn Heb “and he passed through.”
29 tn Heb “all the lives of his sons and his daughters, thirty-three.”
