Discovery BoxGenesis 19:13 
Context19:13 because we are about to destroy 1 it. The outcry against this place 2 is so great before the Lord that he 3 has sent us to destroy it.”
Genesis 34:10
Context34:10 You may live 4 among us, and the land will be open to you. 5 Live in it, travel freely in it, 6 and acquire property in it.”
1 tn The Hebrew participle expresses an imminent action here.
2 tn Heb “for their outcry.” The words “about this place” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “the
4 tn The imperfect verbal form has a permissive nuance here.
5 tn Heb “before you.”
6 tn The verb seems to carry the basic meaning “travel about freely,” although the substantival participial form refers to a trader (see E. A. Speiser, “The Verb sh£r in Genesis and Early Hebrew Movements,” BASOR 164 [1961]: 23-28); cf. NIV, NRSV “trade in it.”
