Genesis 33:1-11

New English Translation

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1. Genesis 33:1 tn Heb “and Jacob lifted up his eyes.”
2. Genesis 33:1 tn Or “and look, Esau was coming.” By the use of the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”), the narrator invites the reader to view the scene through Jacob’s eyes.
3. Genesis 33:2 sn This kind of ranking according to favoritism no doubt fed the jealousy over Joseph that later becomes an important element in the narrative. It must have been painful to the family to see that they were expendable.
4. Genesis 33:3 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5. Genesis 33:3 tn Heb “until his drawing near unto his brother.” The construction uses the preposition with the infinitive construct to express a temporal clause.
6. Genesis 33:5 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7. Genesis 33:5 tn Heb “lifted up his eyes.”
8. Genesis 33:5 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9. Genesis 33:5 tn The Hebrew verb means “to be gracious; to show favor”; here it carries the nuance “to give graciously.”
10. Genesis 33:6 tn Heb “and the female servants drew near, they and their children and they bowed down.”
11. Genesis 33:8 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12. Genesis 33:8 tn Heb “Who to you?”
13. Genesis 33:8 tn Heb “all this camp which I met.”
14. Genesis 33:8 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
15. Genesis 33:10 tn Heb “and Jacob said, ‘No, please.’” The words “take them” have been supplied in the translation for clarity, and the order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse rearranged for stylistic reasons.
16. Genesis 33:10 tn The form is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive, expressing a contingent future nuance in the “then” section of the conditional sentence.
17. Genesis 33:10 tn The verbal form is the preterite with a vav (ו) consecutive, indicating result here.
18. Genesis 33:10 tn Heb “for therefore I have seen your face like seeing the face of God and you have accepted me.”sn This is an allusion to the preceding episode (32:22-31) in which Jacob saw the face of God and realized his prayer was answered.
19. Genesis 33:11 tn Heb “blessing.” It is as if Jacob is trying to repay what he stole from his brother twenty years earlier.
20. Genesis 33:11 tn Or “gracious,” but in the specific sense of prosperity.
21. Genesis 33:11 tn Heb “all.”
22. Genesis 33:11 tn Heb “and he urged him and he took.” The referent of the first pronoun in the sequence (“he”) has been specified as “Jacob” in the translation for clarity.