47:16 Then Joseph said, “If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food 3 in exchange for 4 your livestock.”
1 tn Heb “heavy.”
2 tn This parenthetical clause, introduced by the vav (ו) disjunctive (translated “now”), provides information necessary to the point of the story.
3 tn The word “food” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn On the use of the preposition here see BDB 90 s.v. בְּ.