Genesis comments
Comments to parts of Genesis text
Following are the comments extracted from Genesis text marked up according to TEI.
divine beings who know:--
Others ``God, who knows.''
provided me with:--
Or ``established for me''; Heb.
shath, connected with ``Seth.''
terminate it within a cubit of the top.:--
Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
and the one in charge of my household is Dammesek
Eliezer!'':--
Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
``Have
I not gone on seeing after He saw me!'':--
Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
some ten
days;:--
Lit.
``days or ten.''
he had a
taste for game;:--
Lit. ``game was in his mouth.''
enjoy the fat of the earth
And:--
Others ``be away from the fat of the earth and
from.''
resumed his journey:--
Lit. ``lifted up his feet.''
``A fateful contest I
waged:--
Heb. naphtule ... naphtalti, connected
with ``Naphtali.'' Lit. ``A contest of God
...''
I
had a dream in which I saw:--
Lit. ``I
raised my eyes and saw in a dream, behold.''
kept Laban the
Aramean in the dark,:--
Lit. ``stole the mind of Laban the
Aramean''; similarly in v. 26.
``Thus shall you
say, `To my lord Esau, thus says your servant
Jacob::--
Or ``Thus you shall say to
my lord Esau, `Thus says your servant
Jacob:...'''
beings divine
and human,:--
Or ``God (Elohim, connected with second part of
`Israel') and men.''
public
place:--
Lit. ``gate.''
who went out of the gate of his
town:--
I.e., all his fellow
townsmen.
his period of mourning was over,:--
Lit. ``he was comforted.''
the seven years that the land of Egypt was
enjoying,:--
Lit. ``the
seven years that were in the land of Egypt.''
`Do not let me see your faces:--
Lit. ``Do not see my face.''
show our faces to the man:--
Lit. ``see the man's face.''
the king of beasts:--
Heb.
labi, another word for ``lion.''
His eyes are darker than wine; His teeth are whiter than
milk.:--
Or ``His eyes are dark from wine,
Joseph is a wild ass, A wild ass by a spring
--Wild colts on a hillside.:--
Others ``Joseph is a fruitful bough,
The
blessings of your father Surpass the blessings of my ancestors,
To the utmost bounds of the eternal hills.:--
Meaning of Heb. uncertain.