Genesis 42:19

42:19 If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison ¹  while the rest of you go ²  and take grain back for your hungry families. ³ 

Genesis 42:24

42:24 He turned away from them and wept. When he turned around and spoke to them again, ⁴  he had Simeon taken ⁵  from them and tied up ⁶  before their eyes.

Genesis 42:36

42:36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. ⁷  Simeon is gone. ⁸  And now you want to take ⁹  Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

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¹ tn Heb “bound in the house of your prison.”

² tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal.

³ tn Heb “[for] the hunger of your households.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he turned to them and spoke to them.”

⁵ tn Heb “took Simeon.” This was probably done at Joseph’s command, however; the grand vizier of Egypt would not have personally seized a prisoner.

⁶ tn Heb “and he bound him.” See the note on the preceding verb “taken.”

⁷ tn Heb “is not.”

⁸ tn Heb “is not.”

⁹ tn The nuance of the imperfect verbal form is desiderative here.