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 44:2
Context44:2 Then put 3 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. 4


[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.
[44:2] 3 tn The imperfect verbal form is used here to express Joseph’s instructions.
[44:2] 4 tn Heb “and he did according to the word of Joseph which he spoke.”