Discovery BoxGenesis 9:23 
Context9:23 Shem and Japheth took the garment 1 and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned 2 the other way so they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Genesis 10:30
Context10:30 Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to 3 Sephar in the eastern hills.
Genesis 19:36
Context19:36 In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
Genesis 33:6
Context33:6 The female servants came forward with their children and bowed down. 4
Genesis 34:27
Context34:27 Jacob’s sons killed them 5 and looted the city because their sister had been violated. 6
Genesis 36:19
Context36:19 These were the sons of Esau (also known as Edom), and these were their chiefs.
Genesis 37:12
Context37:12 When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,
Genesis 44:3
Context44:3 When morning came, 7 the men and their donkeys were sent off. 8
Genesis 47:17
Context47:17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for their horses, the livestock of their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. 9 He got them through that year by giving them food in exchange for livestock.
Genesis 49:5
Context49:5 Simeon and Levi are brothers,
weapons of violence are their knives! 10
Genesis 49:19
Context49:19 Gad will be raided by marauding bands,
but he will attack them at their heels. 11
1 tn The word translated “garment” has the Hebrew definite article on it. The article may simply indicate that the garment is definite and vivid in the mind of the narrator, but it could refer instead to Noah’s garment. Did Ham bring it out when he told his brothers?
2 tn Heb “their faces [were turned] back.”
3 tn Heb “as you go.”
4 tn Heb “and the female servants drew near, they and their children and they bowed down.”
5 tn Heb “came upon the slain.” Because of this statement the preceding phrase “Jacob’s sons” is frequently taken to mean the other sons of Jacob besides Simeon and Levi, but the text does not clearly affirm this.
6 tn Heb “because they violated their sister.” The plural verb is active in form, but with no expressed subject, it may be translated passive.
7 tn Heb “the morning was light.”
8 tn Heb “and the men were sent off, they and their donkeys.” This clause, like the preceding one, has the subject before the verb, indicating synchronic action.
9 tn The definite article is translated here as a possessive pronoun.
10 tn The meaning of the Hebrew word מְכֵרָה (mÿkherah) is uncertain. It has been rendered (1) “habitations”; (2) “merchandise”; (3) “counsels”; (4) “swords”; (5) “wedding feasts.” If it is from the verb כָּרַת (karat) and formed after noun patterns for instruments and tools (maqtil, miqtil form), then it would refer to “knives.” Since the verb is used in Exod 4:25 for circumcision, the idea would be “their circumcision knives,” an allusion to the events of Gen 34 (see M. J. Dahood, “‘MKRTYHM’ in Genesis 49,5,” CBQ 23 [1961]: 54-56). Another explanation also connects the word to the events of Gen 34 as a reference to the intended “wedding feast” for Dinah which could take place only after the men of Shechem were circumcised (see D. W. Young, “A Ghost Word in the Testament of Jacob (Gen 49:5)?” JBL 100 [1981]: 335-422).
11 tc Heb “heel.” The MT has suffered from misdivision at this point. The initial mem on the first word in the next verse should probably be taken as a plural ending on the word “heel.”
sn In Hebrew the name Gad (גָּד, gad ) sounds like the words translated “raided” (יְגוּדֶנּוּ, yÿgudennu) and “marauding bands” (גְּדוּד, gÿdud).
