Genesis 13:9

13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go ¹  to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”

Genesis 33:10

33:10 “No, please take them,” Jacob said. ²  “If I have found favor in your sight, accept ³  my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, ⁴  it is as if I have seen the face of God. ⁵ 

Genesis 42:16

42:16 One of you must go and get ⁶  your brother, while ⁷  the rest of you remain in prison. ⁸  In this way your words may be tested to see if ⁹  you are telling the truth. ¹⁰  If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

Genesis 44:26

44:26 But we replied, ‘We cannot go down there. ¹¹  If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, ¹²  for we won’t be permitted to see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’

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¹ tn The words “you go” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons both times in this verse.

² tn Heb “and Jacob said, ‘No, please.’” The words “take them” have been supplied in the translation for clarity, and the order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse rearranged for stylistic reasons.

³ tn The form is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive, expressing a contingent future nuance in the “then” section of the conditional sentence.

⁴ tn The verbal form is the preterite with a vav (ו) consecutive, indicating result here.

⁵ tn Heb “for therefore I have seen your face like seeing the face of God and you have accepted me.”

sn This is an allusion to the preceding episode (32:22-31) in which Jacob saw the face of God and realized his prayer was answered.

⁶ tn Heb “send from you one and let him take.” After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose.

⁷ tn The disjunctive clause is here circumstantial-temporal.

⁸ tn Heb “bound.”

⁹ tn The words “to see” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the truth [is] with you.”

¹¹ tn The direct object is not specified in the Hebrew text, but is implied; “there” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹² tn Heb “go down.”