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 31:38
Context31:38 “I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.
Genesis 37:33
Context37:33 He recognized it and exclaimed, “It is my son’s tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! 5 Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
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 sn A wild animal has eaten him. Jacob draws this conclusion on his own without his sons actually having to lie with their words (see v. 20). Dipping the tunic in the goat’s blood was the only deception needed.
