Genesis 43:8

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.

Ge 42:2; Ge 42:38; Ge 44:26; Ge 45:19; Ge 50:8,21; Ex 20:12; Nu 14:31; De 33:6; 2Ki 7:4,13; Ezr 8:21; Ps 118:17

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.