Genesis 42:35
Context42:35 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.
Genesis 43:12
Context43:12 Take double the money with you; 1 you must take back 2 the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks – perhaps it was an oversight.
Genesis 43:21
Context43:21 But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money – the full amount 3 – in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it. 4
Genesis 44:2
Context44:2 Then put 5 my cup – the silver cup – in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the money for his grain.” He did as Joseph instructed. 6
Genesis 44:8
Context44:8 Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?


[43:12] 1 tn Heb “in your hand.”
[43:12] 2 tn Heb “take back in your hand.” The imperfect verbal form probably has an injunctive or obligatory force here, since Jacob is instructing his sons.
[43:21] 1 tn Heb “in its weight.”
[43:21] 2 tn Heb “brought it back in our hand.”
[44:2] 1 tn The imperfect verbal form is used here to express Joseph’s instructions.
[44:2] 2 tn Heb “and he did according to the word of Joseph which he spoke.”