Genesis 43:25

43:25 They got their gifts ready for Joseph’s arrival ¹  at noon, for they had heard ²  that they were to have a meal ³  there.

Genesis 32:32

32:32 That is why to this day ⁴  the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck ⁵  the socket of Jacob’s hip near the attached sinew.

Genesis 43:16

43:16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant who was over his household, “Bring the men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon.”

[43:25]  ¹ tn The construction uses the infinitive construct after the preposition, followed by the subjective genitive.

[43:25]  ² tn The action precedes the action of preparing the gift, and so must be translated as past perfect.

[43:25]  ³ tn Heb “eat bread.” The imperfect verbal form is used here as a historic future (future from the perspective of the past).

[32:32]  ⁴ sn On the use of the expression to this day, see B. S. Childs, “A Study of the Formula ‘Until This Day’,” JBL 82 (1963): 279-92.

[32:32]  ⁵ tn Or “because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck.” Some translations render this as an impersonal passive. On the translation of the word “struck” see the note on this term in v. 25.