Discovery BoxGenesis 11:7 
Context11:7 Come, let’s go down and confuse 1 their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.” 2
Genesis 20:17
Context20:17 Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.
Genesis 37:4
Context37:4 When Joseph’s 3 brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, 4 they hated Joseph 5 and were not able to speak to him kindly. 6
1 tn The cohortatives mirror the cohortatives of the people. They build to ascend the heavens; God comes down to destroy their language. God speaks here to his angelic assembly. See the notes on the word “make” in 1:26 and “know” in 3:5, as well as Jub. 10:22-23, where an angel recounts this incident and says “And the
2 tn Heb “they will not hear, a man the lip of his neighbor.”
3 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “of his brothers.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun “them.”
5 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “speak to him for peace.”
