Genesis 29

Genesis 29:1

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Genesis 29:10

1 tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”

Genesis 29:11

2 tn Heb “Arise! Go!” The first of the two imperatives is adverbial and stresses the immediacy of the departure.

Genesis 29:12

3 tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Genesis 17:1.

4 tn Heb “and make you fruitful and multiply you.” See Genesis 17:6, 20 for similar terminology.

5 tn The perfect verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here indicates consequence. The collocation הָיָה + preposition לְ (hayah + lÿ) means “become.”

6 tn Heb “an assembly of peoples.”

Genesis 29:13

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Genesis 29:15

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Genesis 29:17

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Genesis 29:21

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Genesis 29:33

1 tn Heb “and Jacob lifted up his feet.” This unusual expression suggests that Jacob had a new lease on life now that God had promised him the blessing he had so desperately tried to gain by his own efforts. The text portrays him as having a new step in his walk.

2 tn Heb “the land of the sons of the east.”

Genesis 29:34

3 tn Heb “and he saw, and look.” As in Genesis 28:12-15, the narrator uses the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) here and in the next clause to draw the reader into the story.

4 tn Heb “and look, there.”

5 tn The disjunctive clause (introduced by the noun with the prefixed conjunction) provides supplemental information that is important to the story.

Genesis 29:35

6 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the shepherds) has been specified in the translation for clarity.