Kejadian 23:13

23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay ¹  to you the price ²  of the field. Take it from me so that I may ³  bury my dead there.”

Kejadian 42:7

42:7 When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger ⁴  to them and spoke to them harshly. He asked, “Where do you come from?” They answered, ⁵  “From the land of Canaan, to buy grain for food.” ⁶ 

[23:13]  ¹ tn Heb “give.”

[23:13]  ² tn Heb “silver.”

[23:13]  ³ tn After the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose or result.

[42:7]  ⁴ sn But pretended to be a stranger. Joseph intends to test his brothers to see if they have changed and have the integrity to be patriarchs of the tribes of Israel. He will do this by putting them in the same situations that they and he were in before. The first test will be to awaken their conscience.

[42:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “said.”

[42:7]  ⁶ tn The verb is denominative, meaning “to buy grain”; the word “food” could simply be the direct object, but may also be an adverbial accusative.