Genesis 32:5

I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent ¹  this message ²  to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

Ge 30:43; Ge 31:1,16; Ge 33:8,15; Ge 33:11; Ge 47:25; Ru 2:2; 1Sa 1:18; 2Sa 16:4; Job 6:22

¹ tn Or “I am sending.” The form is a preterite with the vav consecutive; it could be rendered as an English present tense – as the Hebrew perfect/preterite allows – much like an epistolary aorist in Greek. The form assumes the temporal perspective of the one who reads the message.

² tn The words “this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.