וְהִנֵּ֨ה אָנֹכִ֜י עִמָּ֗ךְ וּשְׁמַרְתִּ֨יךָ֙ בְּכֹ֣ל אֲשֶׁר־תֵּלֵ֔ךְ וַהֲשִׁ֣בֹתִ֔יךָ אֶל־הָאֲדָמָ֖ה הַזֹּ֑את כִּ֚י לֹ֣א אֶֽעֱזָבְךָ֔ עַ֚ד אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִם־עָשִׂ֔יתִי אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי לָֽךְ׃
15Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
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Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Genesis 28:15:
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go: Behold serves to call Jacob’s attention to what the LORD is saying. Good News Translation says “Remember….” Other translations say “Listen!” or “Don’t you forget….” I am with you assures Jacob that the LORD accompanies or goes with him to guide, direct, and protect him. In some languages this may be rendered as a habitual present or future; that is, “I am always with you” or “I will always be with you.” Keep you means “guard,” “watch over,” “protect” you.
Bring you back to this land: as Jacob is traveling away from Canaan to Haran, this land again refers to Canaan, where he began his journey.
For I will not leave you until I have done that of which I have spoken to you: the LORD’s promise not to leave Jacob means that he will not abandon, forsake, depart from Jacob. Until I have done … should not be interpreted to mean that the LORD will leave Jacob after he has done what he had promised. Accordingly it may be necessary to translate, for example, “I will not leave you; I will do everything that I have promised to do.”
Quoted with permission from Reyburn, William D. and Fry, Euan McG. A Handbook on Genesis. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1997. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .
Like a number of other East Asian languages, Japanese uses a complex system of honorifics, i.e. a system where a number of different levels of politeness are expressed in language via words, word forms or grammatical constructs. These can range from addressing someone or referring to someone with contempt (very informal) to expressing the highest level of reference (as used in addressing or referring to God) or any number of levels in-between. One way Japanese show different degree of politeness is through the choice of a first person singular and plural pronoun (“I” and “we” and its various forms) as shown here in the widely-used Japanese Shinkaiyaku (新改訳) Bible of 2017. The most commonly used watashi/watakushi (私) is typically used when the speaker is humble and asking for help. In these verses, where God / Jesus is referring to himself, watashi is also used but instead of the kanji writing system (私) the syllabary hiragana (わたし) is used to distinguish God from others. (Source: S. E. Doi, see also S. E. Doi in Journal of Translation, 18/2022, p. 37ff. )
See also pronoun for “God”.
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