Kejadian 42:26

42:26 So they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left. ¹ 

Kejadian 42:1

Joseph’s Brothers in Egypt

42:1 When Jacob heard ²  there was grain in Egypt, he ³  said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?” ⁴ 

1 Samuel 25:18

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers ⁵  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs ⁶  of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

[42:26]  ¹ tn Heb “and they went from there.”

[42:1]  ² tn Heb “saw.”

[42:1]  ³ tn Heb “Jacob.” Here the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[42:1]  ⁴ sn Why are you looking at each other? The point of Jacob’s question is that his sons should be going to get grain rather than sitting around doing nothing. Jacob, as the patriarch, still makes the decisions for the whole clan.

[25:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “skins.”

[25:18]  ⁶ sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.