H9001–/וַ–v

Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.

וַיַּעֲשׂוּ־ (וַ) va “and”

They said one to another, "We are most assuredly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come on us."

וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ (וַ) va “and”

Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."

וַיַּעַן֩ (וַ) va “and”

He turned himself about from them, and wept, and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

וַיִּסֹּ֥ב (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֑בְךְּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֤שָׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקַּ֤ח (וַ) va “and”וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ר (וַ) va “and”

Then Joseph commanded to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it done to them.

וַיְצַ֣ו (וַ) va “and”וַיְמַלְא֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֥עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”

As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging-place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

וַיִּפְתַּ֨ח (וַ) va “and”וַיַּרְא֙ (וַ) va “and”

He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is even in my sack." Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּצֵ֣א (וַ) va “and”וַיֶּֽחֶרְד֞וּ (וַ) va “and”

They came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

וַיָּבֹ֛אוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּגִּ֣ידוּ (וַ) va “and”

"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

וַיִּתֵּ֣ן (וַ) va “and”

We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

וַנֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'Hereby will I know that you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

וַיְהִ֗י (וַ) va “and”וַיִּרְא֞וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּירָֽאוּ׃ (וַ) va “and”

Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again."

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וּקְרָאָ֤הוּ (וּ) u. “and”וְהוֹרַדְתֶּ֧ם (וְ) ve. “and”

It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."

וַיְהִ֗י (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'

וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"

וַיֹּאמְר֡וּ (וַ) va “and”וַנַ֨גֶּד־ (וַ) va. “and”

Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

I will be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,

וְהִצַּגְתִּ֣יו (וְ) ve. “and”וְחָטָ֥אתִֽי (וְ) ve. “and”

Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it be so now, do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

וְשִׁלַּ֥ח (וְ) ve. “and”

The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

וַיִּקְח֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּקֻ֙מוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּרְד֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּֽעַמְד֖וּ (וַ) va “and”