44:21 “Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see 1 him.’ 2
50:1 Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. 3 He wept over him and kissed him.
1 tn The cohortative after the imperative indicates purpose here.
2 tn Heb “that I may set my eyes upon him.”
3 tn Heb “fell on.” The expression describes Joseph’s unrestrained sorrow over Jacob’s death; he probably threw himself across the body and embraced his father.