Discovery BoxGenesis 19:8 
Context19:8 Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with 1 a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. 2 Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection 3 of my roof.” 4
Genesis 26:4
Context26:4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them 5 all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants. 6
Genesis 30:40
Context30:40 Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face 7 the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks.
Genesis 34:21
Context34:21 “These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough 8 for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry. 9
1 tn Heb “who have not known.” Here this expression is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.
2 tn Heb “according to what is good in your eyes.”
3 tn Heb “shadow.”
4 sn This chapter portrays Lot as a hypocrite. He is well aware of the way the men live in his city and is apparently comfortable in the midst of it. But when confronted by the angels, he finally draws the line. But he is nevertheless willing to sacrifice his daughters’ virginity to protect his guests. His opposition to the crowds leads to his rejection as a foreigner by those with whom he had chosen to live. The one who attempted to rescue his visitors ends up having to be rescued by them.
5 tn Heb “your descendants.”
6 tn Traditionally the verb is taken as passive (“will be blessed”) here, as if Abraham’s descendants were going to be a channel or source of blessing to the nations. But the Hitpael is better understood here as reflexive/reciprocal, “will bless [i.e., pronounce blessings on] themselves/one another” (see also Gen 22:18). Elsewhere the Hitpael of the verb “to bless” is used with a reflexive/reciprocal sense in Deut 29:18; Ps 72:17; Isa 65:16; Jer 4:2. Gen 12:2 predicts that Abram will be held up as a paradigm of divine blessing and that people will use his name in their blessing formulae. For examples of blessing formulae utilizing an individual as an example of blessing see Gen 48:20 and Ruth 4:11. Earlier formulations of this promise (see Gen 12:2; 18:18) use the Niphal stem. (See also Gen 28:14.)
7 tn Heb “and he set the faces of.”
8 tn Heb “wide on both hands,” that is, in both directions.
9 tn The words “to marry” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
