Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Gen 41:34) | 4 tn Heb “and he shall collect a fifth of the land of Egypt.” The language is figurative (metonymy); it means what the land produces, i.e., the harvest. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 41:32) | 3 tn The clause combines a participle and an infinitive construct: God “is hurrying…to do it,” meaning he is going to do it soon. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 41:11) | 1 tn Heb “and we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he, each according to the interpretation of his dream we dreamed.” |
| (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 39:22) | 1 tn Heb “all which they were doing there, he was doing.” This probably means that Joseph was in charge of everything that went on in the prison. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 39:14) | 4 tn Heb “He approached me to lie down with me.” Both expressions can be a euphemism for sexual relations. See the note at 2 Sam 12:24. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 37:35) | 2 tn Heb “and he said, ‘Indeed I will go down to my son mourning to Sheol.’” Sheol was viewed as the place where departed spirits went after death. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 37:10) | 1 sn The question What is this dream that you had? expresses Jacob’s dismay at what he perceives to be Joseph’s audacity. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 37:2) | 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.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 35:17) | 2 sn Another son. The episode recalls and fulfills the prayer of Rachel at the birth of Joseph (Gen 30:24): “may he add” another son. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 35:10) | 1 sn The name Israel means “God fights” (although some interpret the meaning as “he fights [with] God”). See Gen 32:28. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 35:6) | 2 tn Heb “and Jacob came to Luz which is in the land of Canaan—it is Bethel—he and all the people who were with him.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 33:19) | 1 tn The words “he bought it” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text v. 19 is one long sentence. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 31:8) | 1 tn In the protasis (“if” section) of this conditional clause, the imperfect verbal form has a customary nuance—whatever he would say worked to Jacob’s benefit. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 30:42) | 1 tn Heb “he did not put [them] in.” The referent of the [understood] direct object, “them,” has been specified as “the branches” in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 30:6) | 1 tn Heb “and also he has heard my voice.” The expression means that God responded positively to Rachel’s cry and granted her request. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 29:11) | 1 tn Heb “and he lifted up his voice and wept.” The idiom calls deliberate attention to the fact that Jacob wept out loud. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 28:11) | 3 tn Heb “he took from the stones of the place,” which here means Jacob took one of the stones (see v. 18). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 27:33) | 2 tn Heb “Who then is he who hunted game and brought [it] to me so that I ate from all before you arrived and blessed him?” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 27:36) | 1 tn Heb “Is he not rightly named Jacob?” The rhetorical question, since it expects a positive reply, has been translated as a declarative statement. |
