Genesis 16:13
Context16:13 So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” 1 for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!” 2
Genesis 45:13
Context45:13 So tell 3 my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!” 4
Genesis 46:30
Context46:30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.” 5
1 tn Heb “God of my seeing.” The pronominal suffix may be understood either as objective (“who sees me,” as in the translation) or subjective (“whom I see”).
2 tn Heb “after one who sees me.”
sn For a discussion of Hagar’s exclamation, see T. Booij, “Hagar’s Words in Genesis 16:13b,” VT 30 (1980): 1-7.
3 tn The perfect verbal form with the vav consecutive here expresses instruction.
4 tn Heb “and hurry and bring down my father to here.”
5 tn Heb “after my seeing your face that you are still alive.”