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NETI was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.
LSVI have been [thus]: drought has consumed me in the day, and frost by night, and my sleep wanders from my eyes.
FBVWhether it was sweating in the heat of the day, or freezing in the cold of the night when I couldn't sleep, I went on working for you for twenty years in your home.
T4TI suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was often not even able to sleep [PRS]!
LEBThere I was, during the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
BBEThis was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.
JPSThus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
ASVThus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
DRADay and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.
YLTI have been [thus]: in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.
DrbyThus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
RVThus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
WbstrThus I was; in the day the drouth consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
KJB-1769Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
KJB-1611Thus I was in ye day, the drought consumed mee, and the frost by night, aud my sleep departed from mine eyes. (Thus I was in the day, the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, aud my sleep departed from mine eyes.)
BshpsI was in suche case, that by day the heate consumed me, and the frost by nyght, and my slepe departed from mine eyes. (I was in such case, that by day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes.)
GnvaI was in the day consumed with heate, and with frost in the night, and my sleepe departed from mine eyes. (I was in the day consumed with heat, and with frost in the night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes. )
CvdlOn the daye tyme the heate cosumed me, and the frost on the night, and my slepe departed fro myne eyes. (On the day time the heat cosumed me, and the frost on the night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes.)
WyclY was angwischid in dai and nyyt with heete and frost, and sleep fledde fro myn iyen; (I was angwischid in day and night with heat and frost, and sleep fled from mine eyes;)
LuthDes Tages verschmachtete ich vor Hitze und des Nachts vor Frost, und kam kein Schlaf in meine Augen. (Des dayss verschmachtete I before/in_front_of Hitze and the Nachts before/in_front_of Frost, and came kein Schlaf in my Augen.)
ClVgdie noctuque æstu urebar, et gelu, fugiebatque somnus ab oculis meis.[fn] (die noctuque æstu urebar, and gelu, fugiebatque somnus away oculis meis. )
31.40Die noctuque æstu urebar, et gelu. Fugiebat somnus ab oculis meis. Unus effectus est caloris et frigoris.
31.40Die noctuque æstu urebar, and gelu. Fugiebat somnus away oculis meis. Unus effectus it_is caloris and frigoris.
Consider whether or not you can talk about heat and frost in your language as if they could harm Jacob the way a person could harm him. Alternate translation: “During the day the heat of the sun pounded me,”
וְקֶ֣רַח בַּלָּ֑יְלָה וַתִּדַּ֥ד
and,cold in/on/at/with,night and,fled
Alternate translation: “and at night I suffered from the cold, so that I could hardly sleep.” or “and during the nights it was so cold that I could hardly sleep.”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
