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Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Gen 48:16) | 1 sn Smr reads “king” here, but the traditional reading (“angel”) may be maintained. Jacob closely associates God with an angelic protective presence. This does not mean that Jacob viewed his God as a mere angel, but it does suggest that he was aware of an angelic presence sent by God to protect him. Here he so closely associates the two that they become virtually indistinguishable. In this culture messengers typically carried the authority of the one who sent them and could even be addressed as such. Perhaps Jacob thought that the divine blessing would be mediated through this angelic messenger. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 48:6) | 3 sn Listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance. This means that any subsequent children of Joseph will be incorporated into the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 47:31) | 2 tn Heb “swear on oath to me.” The words “that you will do so” have been supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 47:9) | 2 tn Heb “sojournings.” Jacob uses a term that depicts him as one who has lived an unsettled life, temporarily residing in many different places. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 45:12) | 1 tn Heb “And, look, your eyes see and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that my mouth is the one speaking to you.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 43:32) | 3 sn That the Egyptians found eating with foreigners disgusting is well-attested in extra-biblical literature by writers like Herodotus, Diodorus, and Strabo. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 43:15) | 1 tn Heb “they arose and went down to Egypt.” The first verb has an adverbial function and emphasizes that they departed right away. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 43:7) | 5 tn The infinitive absolute emphasizes the imperfect verbal form, which here is a historic future (that is, future from the perspective of a past time). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 43:7) | 6 tn Once again the imperfect verbal form is used as a historic future (that is, future from the perspective of past time). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 42:38) | 2 sn The expression he alone is left meant that (so far as Jacob knew) Benjamin was the only surviving child of his mother Rachel. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 42:27) | 1 tn Heb “and the one.” The article indicates that the individual is vivid in the mind of the narrator, yet it is not important to identify him by name. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 42:23) | 2 tn “was listening.” The brothers were not aware that Joseph could understand them as they spoke the preceding words in their native language. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 41:56) | 2 tc The MT reads “he opened all that was in [or “among”] them.” The translation follows the reading of the LXX and Syriac versions. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 41:46) | 4 tn Heb “and he passed through all the land of Egypt”; this phrase is interpreted by JPS to mean that Joseph “emerged in charge of the whole land.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 41:8) | 3 tn The Hebrew term חַרְטֹם (khartom) is an Egyptian loanword (hyr-tp) that describes a class of priests who were skilled in such interpretations. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 40:14) | 2 tn This perfect verbal form with the prefixed conjunction (and the two that immediately follow) carry the same force as the preceding perfect. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 40:4) | 1 sn He served them. This is the same Hebrew verb, meaning “to serve as a personal attendant,” that was translated “became [his] servant” in 39:4. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 39:17) | 2 sn That Hebrew slave. Now, when speaking to her husband, Potiphar’s wife refers to Joseph as a Hebrew slave, a very demeaning description. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 38:23) | 2 tn Heb “we will become contemptible.” The Hebrew word בּוּז (buz) describes the contempt that a respectable person would have for someone who is worthless, foolish, or disreputable. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 38:9) | 2 tn Heb “would not be his,” that is, legally speaking. Under the levirate system the child would be legally considered the child of his deceased brother. |
