Discovery BoxGenesis 3:12 
Context3:12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave 1 me some fruit 2 from the tree and I ate it.”
Genesis 20:14
Context20:14 So Abimelech gave 3 sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.
Genesis 24:53
Context24:53 Then he 4 brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.
Genesis 43:24
Context43:24 The servant in charge 5 brought the men into Joseph’s house. He gave them water, and they washed their feet. Then he gave food to their donkeys.
Genesis 45:21-22
Context45:21 So the sons of Israel did as he said. 6 Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, 7 and he gave them provisions for the journey. 45:22 He gave sets of clothes to each one of them, 8 but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothes. 9
1 tn The Hebrew construction in this sentence uses an independent nominative absolute (formerly known as a casus pendens). “The woman” is the independent nominative absolute; it is picked up by the formal subject, the pronoun “she” written with the verb (“she gave”). The point of the construction is to throw the emphasis on “the woman.” But what makes this so striking is that a relative clause has been inserted to explain what is meant by the reference to the woman: “whom you gave me.” Ultimately, the man is blaming God for giving him the woman who (from the man’s viewpoint) caused him to sin.
2 tn The words “some fruit” here and the pronoun “it” at the end of the sentence are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “took and gave.”
4 tn Heb “the servant”; the noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Heb “the man.”
6 tn Heb “and the sons of Israel did so.”
7 tn Heb “according to the mouth of Pharaoh.”
8 tn Heb “to all of them he gave, to each one, changes of outer garments.”
9 tn Heb “changes of outer garments.”
