Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Gen 27:32) | 2 tn Heb “and he said, ‘I [am] your son, your firstborn.’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 27:20) | 4 tn Heb “and he said, ‘Because the Lord your God….’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 25:26) | 2 tn Heb “And he called his name Jacob.” Some ancient witnesses read “they called his name Jacob” (see v. 25). In either case the subject is indefinite. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 24:31) | 1 tn Heb “and he said.” The referent (Laban) has been specified and the words “to him” supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 24:23) | 1 tn Heb “and he said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’” The order of the introductory clause has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 23:16) | 5 tn Heb “that he had spoken.” The referent (Ephron) has been specified here in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 21:31) | 1 tn Heb “that is why he called that place.” Some translations render this as an impersonal passive, “that is why that place was called.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 19:19) | 7 tn The Hebrew verb דָּבַק (davaq) normally means “to stick to, to cleave, to join.” Lot is afraid he cannot outrun the coming calamity. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 19:15) | 2 tn Heb “who are found.” The wording might imply he had other daughters living in the city, but the text does not explicitly state this. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 19:17) | 1 tn Or “one of them”; Heb “he.” Several ancient versions (LXX, Vulgate, Syriac) read the plural “they.” See also the note on “your” in v. 19. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 19:13) | 3 tn Heb “the Lord.” The repetition of the divine name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun “he” for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 19:8) | 4 sn This chapter portrays Lot as a hypocrite. He is well aware of the way the men live in his city and is apparently comfortable in the midst of it. But when confronted by the angels, he finally draws the line. But he is nevertheless willing to sacrifice his daughters’ virginity to protect his guests. His opposition to the crowds leads to his rejection as a foreigner by those with whom he had chosen to live. The one who attempted to rescue his visitors ends up having to be rescued by them. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 18:29) | 2 tn The construction is a verbal hendiadys—the preterite (“he added”) is combined with an adverb “yet” and an infinitive “to speak.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 18:15) | 1 tn Heb “And he said, ‘No, but you did laugh.’” The referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 14:20) | 1 tn Heb “blessed be.” For God to be “blessed” means that he is praised. His reputation is enriched in the world as his name is praised. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 14:12) | 4 tn This disjunctive clause is circumstantial/causal, explaining that Lot was captured because he was living in Sodom at the time. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 13:4) | 1 tn Heb “to the place of the altar which he had made there in the beginning” (cf. Gen 12:7-8). |
| (0.30) | (Gen 13:1) | 2 tn Heb “And Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all which was his, and Lot with him, to the Negev.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 12:4) | 3 tn The disjunctive clause (note the pattern conjunction + subject + implied “to be” verb) is parenthetical, telling the age of Abram when he left Haran. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 9:20) | 2 tn Or “Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard”; Heb “and Noah, a man of the ground, began and he planted a vineyard.” |
