Discovery BoxGenesis 19:19 
Context19:19 Your 1 servant has found favor with you, 2 and you have shown me great 3 kindness 4 by sparing 5 my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because 6 this disaster will overtake 7 me and I’ll die. 8
Genesis 31:8
Context31:8 If he said, 9 ‘The speckled animals 10 will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said, ‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring.
1 tn The second person pronominal suffixes are singular in this verse (note “your eyes,” “you have made great,” and “you have acted”). Verse 18a seems to indicate that Lot is addressing the angels, but the use of the singular and the appearance of the divine title “Lord” (אֲדֹנָי, ’adonay) in v. 18b suggests he is speaking to God.
2 tn Heb “in your eyes.”
3 tn Heb “you made great your kindness.”
4 sn The Hebrew word חֶסֶד (khesed) can refer to “faithful love” or to “kindness,” depending on the context. The precise nuance here is uncertain.
5 tn The infinitive construct explains how God has shown Lot kindness.
6 tn Heb “lest.”
7 tn The Hebrew verb דָּבַק (davaq) normally means “to stick to, to cleave, to join.” Lot is afraid he cannot outrun the coming calamity.
8 tn The perfect verb form with vav consecutive carries the nuance of the imperfect verbal form before it.
9 tn In the protasis (“if” section) of this conditional clause, the imperfect verbal form has a customary nuance – whatever he would say worked to Jacob’s benefit.
10 tn Heb “speckled” (twice this verse). The word “animals” (after the first occurrence of “speckled”) and “offspring” (after the second) have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. The same two terms (“animals” and “offspring”) have been supplied after the two occurrences of “streaked” later in this verse.
