TBESH · H9001
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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/וַ (v) means “&” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: v STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
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So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.
Read word by wordThe steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
Read word by wordThen they all tore their clothes, loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.
Read word by wordWhen Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.
Read word by word“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”
Read word by word“What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed the iniquity of your servants. We are now my lord’s slaves—both we and the one who was found with the cup.”
Read word by wordBut Joseph replied, “Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace.”
Read word by wordThen Judah approached Joseph and said, “Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh himself.
Read word by wordAnd we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
Read word by wordThen you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.’
Read word by wordSo we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
Read word by wordBut you said to your servants, ‘Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’
Read word by wordNow when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.
Read word by wordThen our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
Read word by wordBut we answered, ‘We cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.’
Read word by wordAnd your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Read word by wordWhen one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.
Read word by wordNow if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
Read word by wordsees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
Read word by wordIndeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
Read word by wordThen Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
Read word by wordBut he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.
Read word by wordJoseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.
Read word by wordThen Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!
Read word by wordGod sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Read word by wordTherefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Read word by wordNow return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
Read word by wordYou shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.
Read word by wordAnd there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
Read word by wordTell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”
Read word by wordThen Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.
Read word by wordJoseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.
Read word by wordWhen the news reached Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.
Read word by wordPharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do as follows: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan.
Read word by wordYou are also directed to tell them: ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.
Read word by wordSo the sons of Israel did as they were told. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, and he also gave them provisions for their journey.
Read word by wordThen Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way!”
Read word by wordSo the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
Read word by word“Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.
Read word by wordHowever, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.
Read word by word“Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”
Read word by wordSo Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
Read word by wordAnd that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
Read word by word“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
Read word by wordThen Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.
Read word by wordThey also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.
Read word by wordThe sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
Read word by wordThese are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.
Read word by wordManasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
Read word by wordThese are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.
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