Genesis 31:27

31:27 Why did you run away secretly ¹  and deceive me? ²  Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps? ³ 

Genesis 41:24

41:24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this ⁴  to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.” ⁵ 

Genesis 45:9

45:9 Now go up to my father quickly ⁶  and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!

Genesis 46:31

46:31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, ⁷  ‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

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¹ tn Heb “Why did you hide in order to flee?” The verb “hide” and the infinitive “to flee” form a hendiadys, the infinitive becoming the main verb and the other the adverb: “flee secretly.”

² tn Heb “and steal me.”

³ tn Heb “And [why did] you not tell me so I could send you off with joy and with songs, with a tambourine and with a harp?”

⁴ tn The words “all this” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Heb “and there was no one telling me.”

⁶ tn Heb “hurry and go up.”

⁷ tn Heb “tell Pharaoh and say to him.”