Discovery BoxGenesis 6:21 
Context6:21 And you must take 1 for yourself every kind of food 2 that is eaten, 3 and gather it together. 4 It will be food for you and for them.
Genesis 15:9
Context15:9 The Lord 5 said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
Genesis 18:6
Context18:6 So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Take 6 three measures 7 of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.” 8
Genesis 24:51
Context24:51 Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become 9 the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.” 10
Genesis 27:3
Context27:3 Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game 11 for me.
Genesis 31:31
Context31:31 “I left secretly because I was afraid!” 12 Jacob replied to Laban. “I thought 13 you might take your daughters away from me by force. 14
Genesis 31:50
Context31:50 If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize 15 that God is witness to your actions.” 16
Genesis 42:19
Context42:19 If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison 17 while the rest of you go 18 and take grain back for your hungry families. 19
Genesis 42:36
Context42:36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. 20 Simeon is gone. 21 And now you want to take 22 Benjamin! Everything is against me.”
Genesis 44:29
Context44:29 If you take 23 this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair 24 in tragedy 25 to the grave.’ 26
Genesis 46:32
Context46:32 The men are shepherds; 27 they take care of livestock. 28 They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’
Genesis 47:3
Context47:3 Pharaoh said to Joseph’s 29 brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants take care of flocks, just as our ancestors did.” 30
1 tn The verb is a direct imperative: “And you, take for yourself.” The form stresses the immediate nature of the instruction; the pronoun underscores the directness.
2 tn Heb “from all food,” meaning “some of every kind of food.”
3 tn Or “will be eaten.”
4 tn Heb “and gather it to you.”
5 tn Heb “He”; the referent (the
6 tn The word “take” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text the sentence lacks a verb other than the imperative “hurry.” The elliptical structure of the language reflects Abraham’s haste to get things ready quickly.
7 sn Three measures (Heb “three seahs”) was equivalent to about twenty quarts (twenty-two liters) of flour, which would make a lot of bread. The animal prepared for the meal was far more than the three visitors needed. This was a banquet for royalty. Either it had been a lonely time for Abraham and the presence of visitors made him very happy, or he sensed this was a momentous visit.
8 sn The bread was the simple, round bread made by bedouins that is normally prepared quickly for visitors.
9 tn Following the imperatives, the jussive with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.
10 tn Heb “as the
11 tn The Hebrew word is to be spelled either צַיִד (tsayid) following the marginal reading (Qere), or צֵידָה (tsedah) following the consonantal text (Kethib). Either way it is from the same root as the imperative צוּדָה (tsudah, “hunt down”).
12 tn Heb “and Jacob answered and said to Laban, ‘Because I was afraid.’” This statement is a not a response to the question about Laban’s household gods that immediately precedes, but to the earlier question about Jacob’s motivation for leaving so quickly and secretly (see v. 27). For this reason the words “I left secretly” are supplied in the translation to indicate the connection to Laban’s earlier question in v. 27. Additionally the order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse have been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.
13 tn Heb “for I said.”
14 tn Heb “lest you steal your daughters from with me.”
15 tn Heb “see.”
16 tn Heb “between me and you.”
17 tn Heb “bound in the house of your prison.”
18 tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal.
19 tn Heb “[for] the hunger of your households.”
20 tn Heb “is not.”
21 tn Heb “is not.”
22 tn The nuance of the imperfect verbal form is desiderative here.
23 tn The construction uses a perfect verbal form with the vav consecutive to introduce the conditional clause and then another perfect verbal form with a vav consecutive to complete the sentence: “if you take…then you will bring down.”
24 sn The expression bring down my gray hair is figurative, using a part for the whole – they would put Jacob in the grave. But the gray head signifies a long life of worry and trouble. See Gen 42:38.
25 tn Heb “evil/calamity.” The term is different than the one used in the otherwise identical statement recorded in v. 31 (see also 42:38).
26 tn Heb “to Sheol,” the dwelling place of the dead.
27 tn Heb “feeders of sheep.”
28 tn Heb “for men of livestock they are.”
29 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
30 tn Heb “both we and our fathers.”
