1 tn Heb “And the men arose from there.”
2 tn Heb “toward the face of.”
3 tn The disjunctive parenthetical clause sets the stage for the following speech.
4 tn The Piel of שָׁלַח (shalakh) means “to lead out, to send out, to expel”; here it is used in the friendly sense of seeing the visitors on their way.