Discovery BoxGenesis 27:8 
Context27:8 Now then, my son, do 1 exactly what I tell you! 2
Genesis 29:11
Context29:11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly. 3
Genesis 30:12
Context30:12 Then Leah’s servant Zilpah gave Jacob another son. 4
Genesis 47:10
Context47:10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence. 5
1 tn Heb “listen to my voice.” The Hebrew idiom means “to comply; to obey.”
2 tn Heb “to that which I am commanding you.”
3 tn Heb “and he lifted up his voice and wept.” The idiom calls deliberate attention to the fact that Jacob wept out loud.
4 tn Heb “and Zilpah, the servant of Leah, bore a second son for Jacob.”
5 tn Heb “from before Pharaoh.”
