¹ tn Heb “wives, princesses.”

² tn Grk “by the wives’ behavior.”

¹ tn Grk “whose,” referring to the wives.

³ tn Heb “his wives bent his heart.”

² tn “and he asked for a multitude of wives.”

² tn The idiom again is “let them be for wives for….”

¹ tn Heb “a wife from among the wives of the sons of the prophets.”

² tn Heb “What should we do for the remaining ones concerning wives?”

¹ tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”

² tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”

¹ tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”

¹ sn Haggith was one of David’s wives (2 Sam 3:4; 2 Chr 3:2).

³ sn Through battle. This probably refers to the battle against Jabesh Gilead, which only produced 400 of the 600 wives needed.

¹ tn Heb “and Jacob arose and he lifted up his sons and his wives on to the camels.”

¹ tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”

¹ tn Heb “and the wives of your lord into your chest [or “lap”].” The words “I put” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.

⁴ tn Heb “and he [was] a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father.”

² tn The words “to marry” (and the words “as wives” in the following clause) are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.” In the translation the words “let…marry” and “as wives” are supplied for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “give my wives and my children, for whom I have served you.” In one sense Laban had already “given” Jacob his two daughters as wives (Gen 29:21, 28). Here Jacob was asking for permission to take his own family along with him on the journey back to Canaan.