Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Gen 48:2) | 2 tn Heb “Look, your son Joseph.” |
| (0.86) | (Luk 1:27) | 2 tn Grk “Joseph, of the house of David.” |
| (0.81) | (Gen 48:10) | 3 tn Heb “them”; the referent (Joseph’s sons) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.81) | (Gen 43:32) | 1 tn Heb “them”; the referent (Joseph’s brothers) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.81) | (Gen 44:2) | 1 tn The imperfect verbal form is used here to express Joseph’s instructions. |
| (0.81) | (Gen 43:29) | 2 sn Joseph’s language here becomes warmer and more personal, culminating in calling Benjamin my son. |
| (0.81) | (Gen 41:34) | 2 tn Heb “and let him appoint.” The jussive form expresses Joseph’s advice to Pharaoh. |
| (0.81) | (Gen 41:33) | 1 tn Heb “let Pharaoh look.” The jussive form expresses Joseph’s advice to Pharaoh. |
| (0.71) | (Zec 10:6) | 2 tn Or “the kingdom of Israel”; Heb “the house of Joseph.” |
| (0.71) | (Gen 50:17) | 1 tn Heb “and Joseph wept when they spoke to him.” |
| (0.71) | (Gen 48:13) | 1 tn Heb “and Joseph took the two of them.” |
| (0.71) | (Heb 11:22) | 2 sn Joseph’s prophecy about the exodus of the sons of Israel is found in Gen 50:24. |
| (0.71) | (Gen 48:10) | 4 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Joseph’s father) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.71) | (Gen 48:9) | 2 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Joseph’s father) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.71) | (Gen 37:18) | 1 tn Heb “and they”; the referent (Joseph’s brothers) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.62) | (Gen 44:10) | 4 sn The rest of you will be free. Joseph’s purpose was to single out Benjamin to see if the brothers would abandon him as they had abandoned Joseph. He wanted to see if they had changed. |
| (0.62) | (Gen 41:38) | 1 tn Heb “like this,” but the referent could be misunderstood to be a man like that described by Joseph in v. 33, rather than Joseph himself. For this reason the proper name “Joseph” has been supplied in the translation. |
| (0.62) | (Gen 37:28) | 2 tn Heb “they drew and they lifted up.” The referent (Joseph’s brothers) has been specified in the translation for clarity; otherwise the reader might assume the Midianites had pulled Joseph from the cistern (but cf. NAB). |
| (0.61) | (Gen 42:6) | 2 sn Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him. Here is the beginning of the fulfillment of Joseph’s dreams (see Gen 37). But it is not the complete fulfillment, since all his brothers and his parents must come. The point of the dream, of course, was not simply to get the family to bow to Joseph, but that Joseph would be placed in a position of rule and authority to save the family and the world (41:57). |
| (0.61) | (Rev 12:1) | 2 sn Sun…moon…stars. This imagery is frequently identified with the nation Israel because of Joseph’s dream in Gen 37. |
