Discovery BoxGenesis 43:8 
Context43:8 Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. 1 Then we will live 2 and not die – we and you and our little ones.
Genesis 44:2
Context44:2 Then put 3 my cup – the silver cup – in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the money for his grain.” He did as Joseph instructed. 4
Genesis 45:19
Context45:19 You are also commanded to say, 5 ‘Do this: Take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives. Bring your father and come.
1 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.”
2 tn After the preceding cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form (either imperfect or cohortative) with the prefixed conjunction here indicates purpose or result.
3 tn The imperfect verbal form is used here to express Joseph’s instructions.
4 tn Heb “and he did according to the word of Joseph which he spoke.”
5 tn The words “to say” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
