² tn Heb “Raise a signal flag.”

¹ tn Heb “Raise up a signal toward Zion.”

² tn That is, “they signaled by making gestures” (L&N 33.485).

⁶ sn The ram’s horn (used as a trumpet) was blown to signal the approaching battle.

¹ tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive signals a return to the narrative.

¹ tn The disjunctive vav (ו) signals a contrastive clause here: “but the man” on the other hand….

¹ tn The disjunctive clause signals the beginning of the next scene and highlights God’s action.

¹ tn The disjunctive clause signals the beginning of a new episode in the story.

¹ tn Or “He gave them a signal.” Grk “Giving them a signal…he related to them.” The participle κατασείσας (kataseisas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

¹ tn The disjunctive clause structure (note the pattern vav [ו] + subject + verb) here signals the beginning of a new scene.

¹ tn The disjunctive clause switches the audience’s attention to Isaac and signals a new episode in the story.

² sn Because the phrase these things is plural, more than the temple’s destruction is in view. The question may presuppose that such a catastrophe signals the end.

¹ tn Grk “falling therefore the slave bowed down to the ground.” The redundancy of this expression signals the desperation of the slave in begging for mercy.

³ tn Heb “a root from Jesse, which stands for a signal flag of the nations, of him nations will inquire” [or “seek”].

¹ tn The comparative clause may be signaled simply by the context, especially when facts of a moral nature are compared with the physical world (see GKC 499 §161.a).

¹ sn This was a long, straight, metallic instrument used for signal calls, rather than the traditional ram’s horn (both instruments are typically translated “trumpet” by English versions).

⁵ tn The disjunctive clause structure (vav [ו] + subject + verb) highlights this final word of instruction or signals the conclusion of the instructions.

³ sn The signal for moving camp was apparently different in tone and may have been sharper notes or a different sequence. It was in some way distinguishable.

¹ tn The disjunctive clause formally signals closure for this episode of Joseph’s story, which will be resumed in Gen 39.

¹ tn Here is another significant parenthetical clause in the story, signaled by the vav (ו) disjunctive (translated “now”) on the noun at the beginning of the clause.