Genesis 45:13

45:13 So tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!”

Genesis 45:19-20

45:19 You are also commanded to say, ‘Do this: Take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives. Bring your father and come. 45:20 Don’t worry about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’”


tn The perfect verbal form with the vav consecutive here expresses instruction.

tn Heb “and hurry and bring down my father to here.”

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

tn Heb “let not your eye regard.”