Discovery BoxGenesis 34:16 
Context34:16 Then we will give 1 you our daughters to marry, 2 and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.
Genesis 43:8
Context43:8 Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. 3 Then we will live 4 and not die – we and you and our little ones.
Genesis 44:8
Context44:8 Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
1 tn The perfect verbal form with the vav (ו) consecutive introduces the apodosis of the conditional sentence.
2 tn The words “to marry” (and the words “as wives” in the following clause) are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “and we will rise up and we will go.” The first verb is adverbial and gives the expression the sense of “we will go immediately.”
4 tn After the preceding cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form (either imperfect or cohortative) with the prefixed conjunction here indicates purpose or result.
