Footnotes

1. Genesis 34:10 tn The imperfect verbal form has a permissive nuance here.
2. Genesis 34:10 tn Heb “before you.”
3. Genesis 34:10 tn The verb seems to carry the basic meaning “travel about freely,” although the substantival participial form refers to a trader (see E. A. Speiser, “The Verb sḥr in Genesis and Early Hebrew Movements,” BASOR 164 [1961]: 23-28); cf. NIV, NRSV “trade in it.”