Genesis 35:3

35:3 Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”

Genesis 43:8

43:8 Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die – we and you and our little ones.


tn Heb “let us arise and let us go up.” The first cohortative gives the statement a sense of urgency.

tn The cohortative with the prefixed conjunction here indicates purpose or consequence.

tn Heb “day of distress.” See Ps 20:1 which utilizes similar language.

tn Heb “in the way in which I went.” Jacob alludes here to God’s promise to be with him (see Gen 28:20).

tn Heb “and we will rise up and we will go.” The first verb is adverbial and gives the expression the sense of “we will go immediately.”

tn After the preceding cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form (either imperfect or cohortative) with the prefixed conjunction here indicates purpose or result.