Real Bible Translation - Genesis 16:13

Genesis 16:13

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RBT Translation:

And she is calling-out the name of Yahweh, the One-who-orders toward her,⁶⁰⁸ `Yourself is el of sight.`⁶⁰⁹ For she has said, `Is it⁶¹⁰ also here I have seen the back-parts of his-who-sees-me?`⁶¹¹

LITV Translation:
And she called the name of Jehovah, the One speaking to her, You, a God of vision! For she said, Even here I have looked after the One seeing me?

ESV Translation:
So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And she called the name of the Lord God who spoke to her, Thou art God who seest me; for she said, For I have openly seen him that appeared to me.

Footnotes

608	Hebrew הַדֹּבֵ֣ר אֵלֶ֔יהָ, ha-dober eleha. He-who-orders toward her. A participle of the verb to order [words] in the masculine singular with a definite article. The text clearly refers to the messenger of Yahweh for it is the messenger who is speaking toward her. “The Name” of Yahweh is a label for those who abide in him and are “called-out by his Name”—messengers (Isa. 43:7). In other words, messenger = the Name.
609	Hebrew אַתָּ֖ה אֵ֣ל רֳאִ֑י, atah el roi. The word is el (#410) which is the singular form as opposed to elohim which is plural. The singular el was used in Genesis 14:18,19,20, and 22.
610	Hebrew הֲגַם The conjunction also in this saying is prefixed with the ה which signifies the saying is a question.
611	Strong’s #8034. Heb. אֵ֣ל רֳאִ֑י, el roi. Roi is a noun that means sight and seer but also a participle verb he-who-sees. It is used of Shepherds, overseers, as we saw earlier. If Hagar sees “behind him-who-sees”, then we have some connection to the story of Shem and Opened walking backward with the Garment toward their naked mother, which is a story about the brother “not seeing” the naked-one. See Genesis 9:23. Compare with the two disciples of John beholding the backside of Jesus and then following him, And having looked to the Salvation-of-Yah walking, he is saying, behold, the lamb of the Theos. And heard the two learners of himself speaking, and they followed the Salvation-of-Yah. But turned-around the Salvation-of-Yah, and looked upon them following…” John 1:36-38 literal In this contrived scene, what we have is a redux of two brothers (Andrew and Peter) and Jesus as “the Garment” in between with all three of them walking backwards until Jesus turns around, the “covering” of “Rest’s naked-one”.