Kejadian 42:5
Konteks42:5 So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, 1 for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.
Kejadian 42:29
Konteks42:29 They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,
Kejadian 49:15
Konteks49:15 When he sees 2 a good resting place,
and the pleasant land,
he will bend his shoulder to the burden
and become a slave laborer. 3
[42:5] 1 tn Heb “in the midst of the coming ones.”
[49:15] 2 tn The verb forms in this verse (“sees,” “will bend,” and “[will] become”) are preterite; they is used in a rhetorical manner, describing the future as if it had already transpired.
[49:15] 3 sn The oracle shows that the tribe of Issachar will be willing to trade liberty for the material things of life. Issachar would work (become a slave laborer) for the Canaanites, a reversal of the oracle on Canaan. See C. M. Carmichael, “Some Sayings in Genesis 49,” JBL 88 (1969): 435-44; and S. Gevirtz, “The Issachar Oracle in the Testament of Jacob,” ErIsr 12 (1975): 104-12.