translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: GEN

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “and Israel journeyed, and all that was his.”


text: Heb “in visions of the night.” The plural form has the singular meaning, probably as a plural of intensity.


text: Heb “the God.”


text: Heb “and I, I will bring you up, also bringing up.” The independent personal pronoun before the first person imperfect verbal form draws attention to the speaker/subject, while the infinitive absolute after the imperfect strongly emphasizes the statement: “I myself will certainly bring you up.”


text: Heb “and Joseph will put his hand upon your eyes.” This is a promise of peaceful death in Egypt with Joseph present to close his eyes.


text: Heb “arose.”


text: Heb “and they took their livestock and their possessions which they had acquired in the land of Canaan and they went to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.


text: The Hebrew text adds “with him” here. This is omitted in the translation because it is redundant in English style (note the same phrase earlier in the verse).


label: NET textual note

text: The MT reads “Puvah” (cf. Num 26:23 ); the Samaritan Pentateuch and Syriac read “Puah” (cf. 1 Chr 7:1 ).


text: The MT reads “Iob,” but the Samaritan Pentateuch and some LXX mss read “Jashub” (see Num 26:24 ; 1 Chr 7:1 ).


text: Heb “all the lives of his sons and his daughters, thirty-three.”


text: The MT reads “Ziphion,” but see Num 26:15 , the Samaritan Pentateuch and the LXX, all of which read “Zephon.”


text: This name appears as “Shuham” in Num 26:42 . The LXX reads “Hashum” here.


text: Heb “All the people who went with Jacob to Egypt, the ones who came out of his body, apart from the wives of the sons of Jacob, all the people were sixty-six.” sn The number sixty-six includes the seventy-one descendants (including Dinah) listed in vv. 8-25 minus Er and Onan (deceased), and Joseph, Manasseh, and Ephraim (already in Egypt).


text: The LXX reads “nine sons,” probably counting the grandsons of Joseph born to Ephraim and Manasseh (cf. 1 Chr 7:14-20 ).


text: Heb “And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two people; all the people belonging to the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy.” sn The number seventy includes Jacob himself and the seventy-one descendants (including Dinah, Joseph, Manasseh, and Ephraim) listed in vv. 8-25 , minus Er and Onan (deceased). The LXX gives the number as “seventy-five” (cf. Acts 7:14 ).


text: Heb “and he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “to direct before him to Goshen.”


text: Heb “and he appeared to him.”


text: Heb “after my seeing your face that you are still alive.”


text: Heb “tell Pharaoh and say to him.”


text: Heb “feeders of sheep.”


text: Heb “for men of livestock they are.”


text: Heb “your servants are men of cattle.”


text: Heb “is an abomination.” The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה ( to ’ evah , “abomination”) describes something that is loathsome or off-limits. For other practices the Egyptians considered disgusting, see Gen 43:32 and Exod 8:22 .