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Genesis 42:34-36
New English Translation

34 But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know[a] that you are honest men and not spies.[b] Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.’”[c]

35 When they were emptying their sacks, there was each man’s bag of money in his sack! When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were afraid. 36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone.[d] Simeon is gone.[e] And now you want to take[f] Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 42:34 tn After the imperative, the cohortative with prefixed vav indicates purpose/result.
  2. Genesis 42:34 tn Heb “that you are not spies, that you are honest men.”
  3. Genesis 42:34 sn Joseph’s brothers soften the news considerably, making it sound like Simeon was a guest of Joseph (Leave one of your brothers with me) instead of being bound in prison. They do not mention the threat of death and do not at this time speak of the money in the one sack.
  4. Genesis 42:36 tn Heb “is not.”
  5. Genesis 42:36 tn Heb “is not.”
  6. Genesis 42:36 tn The nuance of the imperfect verbal form is desiderative here.
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