Discovery BoxGenesis 18:33 
Context18:33 The Lord went on his way 1 when he had finished speaking 2 to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home. 3
Genesis 29:9
Context29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them. 4
Genesis 42:23
Context42:23 (Now 5 they did not know that Joseph could understand them, 6 for he was speaking through an interpreter.) 7
1 tn Heb “And the
2 tn The infinitive construct (“speaking”) serves as the direct object of the verb “finished.”
3 tn Heb “to his place.”
4 tn Heb “was a shepherdess.”
5 tn The disjunctive clause provides supplemental information that is important to the story.
6 tn “was listening.” The brothers were not aware that Joseph could understand them as they spoke the preceding words in their native language.
7 tn Heb “for [there was] an interpreter between them.” On the meaning of the word here translated “interpreter” see HALOT 590 s.v. מֵלִיץ and M. A. Canney, “The Hebrew melis (Prov IX 12; Gen XLII 2-3),” AJSL 40 (1923/24): 135-37.
