Genesis 45:13
45:13 So tell 1 my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!” 2
Genesis 45:19-20
45:19 You are also commanded to say, 3 ‘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 4 about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’”
1 tn The perfect verbal form with the vav consecutive here expresses instruction.
2 tn Heb “and hurry and bring down my father to here.”
3 tn The words “to say” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “let not your eye regard.”