Genesis 42:19

42:19 If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison ¹  while the rest of you go ²  and take grain back for your hungry families. ³ 

Genesis 45:18

45:18 Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you ⁴  the best land in Egypt and you will eat ⁵  the best ⁶  of the land.’

Genesis 42:33

42:33 “Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain ⁷  for your hungry households and go.

[42:19]  ¹ tn Heb “bound in the house of your prison.”

[42:19]  ² tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal.

[42:19]  ³ tn Heb “[for] the hunger of your households.”

[45:18]  ⁴ tn After the imperatives in vv. 17-18a, the cohortative with vav indicates result.

[45:18]  ⁵ tn After the cohortative the imperative with vav states the ultimate goal.

[45:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “fat.”

[42:33]  ⁷ tn The word “grain” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.