13:12 But she said to him, “No, my brother! Don’t humiliate me! This just isn’t done in Israel! Don’t do this foolish thing!
13:16 But she said to him, “No I won’t, for sending me away now would be worse than what you did to me earlier!” 1 But he refused to listen to her.
1 tn Heb “No, because this great evil is [worse] than the other which you did with me, by sending me away.” Perhaps the broken syntax reflects her hysteria and outrage.