Genesis 28:5-6

28:5 So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. ¹  As he blessed him, ²  Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” ³ 

Genesis 37:14

37:14 So Jacob ⁴  said to him, “Go now and check on ⁵  the welfare ⁶  of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word.” So Jacob ⁷  sent him from the valley of Hebron.

Genesis 38:25

38:25 While they were bringing her out, she sent word ⁸  to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong.” ⁹  Then she said, “Identify ¹⁰  the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong.”

Genesis 45:8

45:8 So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser ¹¹  to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45:23

45:23 To his father he sent the following: ¹²  ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father’s journey.

Genesis 45:27

45:27 But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, ¹³  and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.

Genesis 46:5

46:5 Then Jacob started out ¹⁴  from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.

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¹ tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”

² tn The infinitive construct with the preposition and the suffix form a temporal clause.

³ tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “see.”

⁶ tn Heb “peace.”

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “she was being brought out and she sent.” The juxtaposition of two clauses, both of which place the subject before the predicate, indicates synchronic action.

⁹ tn Heb “who these to him.”

¹⁰ tn Or “ recognize; note.” This same Hebrew verb (נָכַר, nakhar) is used at the beginning of v. 26, where it is translated “recognized.”

¹¹ tn Heb “a father.” The term is used here figuratively of one who gives advice, as a father would to his children.

¹² tn Heb “according to this.”

¹³ tn Heb “and they spoke to him all the words of Joseph which he had spoke to them.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “arose.”