1 tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”
2 tn The disjunctive clause provides supplemental information that is important to the story.
3 tn “was listening.” The brothers were not aware that Joseph could understand them as they spoke the preceding words in their native language.
4 tn Heb “for [there was] an interpreter between them.” On the meaning of the word here translated “interpreter” see HALOT 590 s.v. מֵלִיץ and M. A. Canney, “The Hebrew melis (Prov IX 12; Gen XLII 2-3),” AJSL 40 (1923/24): 135-37.
