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    "book": "genesis-woh",
    "chapter": 42
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    "title": "Genesis 42 — The brothers' first descent to Mitsrayim: the first fulfilment of Yosef's sheaves-dream, the test, and Shim'on bound",
    "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0","sourceText":"Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra (Westminster Leningrad)","sourceLicense":"Public Domain","sourceUrl":"http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml","sourceAccessedVia":"sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Genesis.42","glossaryVersion":"2.42.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.10.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-7 (translator)"],"editor":"claude-opus-4-7 (editor)","reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-05-31T00:00:00Z","status":"stable","reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-4-7 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-05-31T00:00:00Z","verdicts":[{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:1","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ra'ah (Hithpael); BDB p. 906; HALOT s.v. shever II; BDB p. 991-992"],"reasoning":"Independently re-parsed: titra'u is the Hithpael of ra'ah (reciprocal-reflexive 'look at one another'); shever the commercial 'grain' noun. ASV-baseline preserved. New overlay (titra'u) and central (shever-mashbir) entries soundly housed; the chapter-singular Hithpael correctly inferred, the commercial keyword correctly central."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:2","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: hinneh shamati ki yesh-shever be-Mitsrayim... ASV-baseline rendering correct; glossaryRefs to shever cluster and Mitsrayim entries appropriate."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:3","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. bar (II); BDB p. 141"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: lishbor bar mi-Mitsrayim. The bar/shever register-distinction commentary is philologically precise (HALOT distinguishes bar 'threshed kernel' from shever 'commodity'). ASV-baseline 'buy grain' preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:4","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ason; Houtman, Exodus HCOT 1996 ad Exod 21:22-23"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: pen-yiqra'enu ason. The Exod 21:22-23 ason/no-ason fatal/non-fatal distinction decisively fixes the lethal force. Overlay direct classification confirmed (the lexeme cluster is grammatically and lexically explicit; the cross-corpus reach is to one external context, justifying overlay over central). KJV→ASV modernization 'mischief'→'harm' philologically correct."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; ASV-baseline 'sons of Yisra'el ... famine in the land of Kena'an' direct and uncontested."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:6","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chwh (Hishtaphel); Emerton \"The Etymology of hištaḥawāh\" OTS 20 (1977) 41-55; HALOT s.v. shallit; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 290; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 pp. 106-107; Coats CBQMS 4 (1976); Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis SSN 17, 1975"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed va-yavo'u achei Yosef va-yishtachavu-lo apayim artzah. The Hishtaphel-of-chwh promotion is philologically and architecturally sound: the corpus-wide reach (hundreds of occurrences) and the Yosef-cycle dream-and-fulfilment arc both demand central housing; the rationale documents the three semantic registers (homage / worship / idolatry) without any WoH-distinctive synthesis, the apayim artzah formula correctly cross-referenced; the deletion of the now-redundant overlay entry is the right architectural treatment. The translation surface \"made obeisance\" preserves the Gen 37 consistency-decision and is the philologically defensible homage-to-human-superior register (not \"worship\"). CORRECTIVE PASS 2026-05-31: the referential-integrity defect that previously held this verdict at flag-for-human has been corrected and re-verified. Chapter-37.json live glossaryRefs at vv 7, 9, 10 now point at the new central id hishtachavah-bow-down-obeisance-worship; the verse-level commentary at vv 7, 9, 10 has been updated to name the new id (v7 parenthetical minimally rewritten from \"strong promotion candidate\" to \"the central glossary entry covering the dream-and-fulfilment arc\", which is the correct post-promotion phrasing and not a substantive rewrite); chapter-37 translation metadata (version 1.0.0, glossaryVersion 2.35.0, overlayGlossaryVersion 1.5.0, reviewer, reviewedAt, status stable), all verse text and i18n.en renderings, and the frozen reviewerReport audit block (which correctly still names the old overlay id at line 373) are all unchanged from the stable Gen 37 ship. The deprecated overlay id hishtachavah-obeisance-yosef-dreams no longer exists as an entry id in the v1.10.0 overlay glossary (it appears only in the scopeNote deprecation-history prose, as designed). The fix is correct and complete. Verdict advanced from flag-for-human to approve."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:7","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. nakar (Hiphil + Hithpael); BDB p. 647-649; Alter The Art of Biblical Narrative 1981 ch. 1; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 290; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 p. 107"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: va-yakkirem (Hiphil 3ms+3mp suff) and va-yitnakker (Hithpael 3ms) paired in a single verse — confirmed morphologically. The 1 Kgs 14:5-6 Achiyah parallel is the only other HB Hithpael-of-nakar in the feigning-unrecognisability sense, correctly identified. The sibling-overlay architecture (haker-na-nakar-recognition-motif extended + new nakar-hitnakker-recognition-feigning-gen42) is the appropriate housing per the ratified sibling-overlay pattern. Bidirectional cross-reference independently verified: haker-na entry's rationale names nakar-hitnakker by id (line 483); nakar-hitnakker entry's rationale names haker-na by id (line 938). True bidirectional sibling link confirmed."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed terse narrator's restatement va-yakker Yosef et echav ve-hem lo hikkiruhu. The recognition-asymmetry framing through 45:1-4 is mainstream-scholarly (Sarna, Alter, Fokkelman). ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:9","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ervah; BDB p. 788; Milgrom Leviticus 17-22 AB 2000 (on Lev 18/20 ervah register); Alter Five Books of Moses 2004 p. 242"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed va-yizkor Yosef et ha-chalomot ... ervat ha-aretz. The transferred-from-sexual-to-geopolitical ervah sense is documented in the standard lexica and Alter; the chapter-internal pair (vv 9, 12) appropriately overlay-housed. The narrator's explicit dream-recollection (va-yizkor) properly noted as the Gen 37 fulfilment-flag — no WoH spin imported."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:10","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:11","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ken III; BDB p. 467"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: kenim, substantival plural of ken in the nominalized 'honest/true men' sense. The chapter-internal five-fold refrain (vv 11, 19, 31, 33, 34) correctly overlay-housed; ASV-baseline 'true men' preserved consistently. The lexical contrast with v 21 ashemim is the chapter's deepest literary structure and is properly documented."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; ASV-baseline preserved; second occurrence of ervat ha-aretz governed by the same overlay entry as v 9."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:13","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ayin; BDB pp. 34-35; Alter Five Books of Moses 2004 p. 243"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: ve-ha-echad einennu, the negative-existential particle + 3ms suffix. The Gen 37:30 anchor (Re'uven's ha-yeled einennu) → Gen 42:13, 32, 36 → Gen 44:20, 26, 30 forward-echo arc is textually verifiable and is the corpus's tightest missing-brother lexical-refrain. The deliberate-euphemism reading (brothers say einennu, Ya'aqov says met at v 38) is grammatically explicit. Overlay housing appropriate."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:14","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:15","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chai; BDB p. 311; Lehmann 'Biblical Oaths' ZAW 81 (1969) 74-92; Greenberg 'The Hebrew Oath Particle ḥay/ḥē' JBL 76 (1957) 34-39"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: chei Par'oh, the construct-form chai + royal name. The cross-corpus standard Israelite chai-YHWH formula (~50+ attestations) plus the ANE court-oath chei-king-name parallel (1 Sam 17:55; 2 Sam 11:11; 14:19) justifies central housing. The maintained-disguise reading (Yosef as shallit swearing the court-appropriate formula) is mainstream and documented; no WoH synthesis."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; second occurrence of chei Par'oh governed by the same central entry."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:17","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. mishmar; BDB p. 1038"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: el-mishmar shloshet yamim. The mishmar / beit mishmar / beit ha-sohar facility-question correctly noted as undecidable; overlay housing with cross-reference to central beit-ha-sohar appropriate. The three-day literary-threshold (Gen 22:4; 40:13-20; Hos 6:2; Jonah 2:1) is mainstream-noted. 'inferred' claim_type defensible given the facility-identification undecidability."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:18","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. yir'ah; Becker, Gottesfurcht im Alten Testament 1965"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: et ha-Elohim ani yarei. The yir'at Elohim chain Gen 20:11 → 22:12 → 42:18 → Exod 1:17, 21 → Exod 18:21 etc. is a documentary cross-corpus structure; the central entry's rationale already names Gen 42:18, and the appliesTo extension is scope-formalization. The 'Elohim' translation surface is the corpus-wide WoH article-convention for the Hebrew lexeme (matching ha-Elohim in the source); not lens-leakage. Yosef-cycle divine-name overlay extension to v 18 is sound."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; im-kenim attem ... beit mishmarkhem; ASV-baseline preserved across all three governing entries."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:20","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; va-ya'asu khen. No glossary references needed; ASV-baseline correct."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:21","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ashem and tzarah; BDB pp. 79-80 (asham), 865 (tzarah); TDOT I:429-437 (Koch on asham); TDOT XII:438-449 (tzarah); Milgrom Cult and Conscience SJLA 18 (1976); J. Bright Jeremiah AB 1965 pp. 273-279 (on Jer 30:7); Wolff Hosea Hermeneia 1974 pp. 108-122 (on Hos 5:15 asham+tzar pairing)"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed independently: aval ashemim anachnu al achinu ... tzarat nafsho ... ha-tzarah ha-zot. The double-tzarah measure-for-measure construction with the al-causal grammar is morphologically and syntactically explicit. The ashem/asham/asham cluster cross-corpus reach is decisive for central housing (Lev 5-7 guilt-offering cultic-system; Hos/Ezek/Jer prophetic indictment; 2 Sam 14:13 substantival; Psalter). The tzarah cluster Psalmic + prophetic + wisdom saturation independently confirmed; Jer 30:7 eit-tzarah-le-Ya'aqov echo is the corpus's deepest cross-narrative-prophetic lexical link. The rationale stays strictly within the narrative-cultic-prophetic theological-philological frame; no Council-of-Eternals or Elohim-as-civilization spin. 'direct' classification confirmed: the lexical observations are grammatically and lexically explicit, the cross-corpus distribution is verifiable, the moral-causal aval/al/al-ken structure is in the grammar. MAJOR central placement architecturally sound."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:22","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. darash (Niphal); BDB p. 205; TDOT III:293-307"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: ve-gam damo hinneh nidrash. The Niphal 3ms participle nidrash is the passive answer to the Gen 9:5 active triple-edrosh — morphologically transparent. The forensic chain Gen 4:10 (damei tzo'aqim) → Gen 9:5 (the standing edrosh rule) → Gen 42:22 (the applied case) → Ezek 33:6 is one of the corpus's deepest cross-narrative theological-arcs, properly documented in the extended central rationale paragraph. The appliesTo extension and the rationale-extension paragraph are correctly executed. Re'uven's implication of self under the rule (Gen 37:21-22 attempted-rescue) is mainstream-noted."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:23","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. lutz and melitz; BDB p. 539-540; Moran The Amarna Letters 1992 (targumannu)"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: ki ha-melitz beinotam. The chapter-specific 'court interpreter / translator' sense is effectively a hapax in this register within the HB; the cross-corpus melitz in mediator/spokesman/advocate senses (Job 33:23, Isa 43:27, 2 Chr 32:31) is correctly distinguished. The ANE targumannu institution is well-attested. Overlay housing appropriate; the narrative-architecture observation (v 23 parenthetical placed between the v 21-22 confession-in-Hebrew and the v 24 weeping) is mainstream and documented."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:24","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 291; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 pp. 111-112; Alter Five Books of Moses 2004 p. 244; Sternberg Poetics of Biblical Narrative 1985 ch. 9; Genesis Rabbah 91:8"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: va-yissov me-aleihem va-yevk ... va-yiqach me-ittam et Shim'on va-ye'esor oto le-eineihem. The Shim'on-as-hostage literary observation (Gen 34 Shechem-massacre architect; Gen 49:5-7 deathbed-curse retrospective; Re'uven conspicuously not chosen) is consensus reading across Sarna, Alter, Westermann, Sternberg, and the rabbinic tradition. The visual measure-for-measure (le-eineihem echo) is properly observed. Commentary-only treatment correct (literary observation, not lexical decision)."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:25","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. keli, saq, amtachat; BDB pp. 479, 974, 607; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 292; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 p. 112"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: va-yemal'u et keleihem bar ... ish el saqo. The kelim/saq/amtachat three-lexeme alternation is grammatically and lexically explicit; the amtachat Gen 42-44 exhaustive restriction (twelve occurrences, nowhere else in HB) is one of the corpus's most striking lexical-restriction phenomena and is correctly documented. The 'inferred' classification is appropriate because the three explanations (referential differentiation / stylistic synonymy / source-critical seam) are not decisively resolved — report-don't-adjudicate posture preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:26","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:27","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. malon and lin; BDB p. 533; Matthews 'Hospitality and Hostility in Judges 4' BTB 21 (1991) 13-21"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: ba-malon. The lexeme's wayfaring-stopover / caravanserai sense is well-established; the KJV 'inn' anachronism critique is mainstream-standard. The borderline cross-corpus reach (Gen 43:21, Exod 4:24, Josh 4, 2 Kgs 19:23, Jer 9:1) appropriately overlay-housed with promotion-path-note. The narrative-architecture observation (one-brother malon-discovery vs collective home-discovery at v 35) is mainstream."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:28","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. yatza (heart-idioms) and lev; BDB p. 422; Wolff Anthropology of the OT 1974 pp. 40-58"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: va-yetze libbam va-yecherdu ish el achiv ... mah zot asah Elohim lanu. The yatza-lev construction is chapter-singular in the HB; the Cant 5:6 nafshi yatz'ah parallel (X-yatza idiom-type with different vital-entity noun) is correctly identified. The brothers' attribution of the silver-restoration to Elohim is mainstream-noted as the chapter's providential-reading pattern (paralleled by Yosef's own Gen 45:5-8 reformulation). The Elohim translation surface is corpus-wide article-convention; not lens-leakage. Overlay scope-extension to v 28 sound."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:29","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; transitional narrative bridge; ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:30","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 291; Alter Five Books of Moses 2004 p. 245"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: ha-ish adonei ha-aretz ... qashot. The brothers' retelling-variation (vv 30-34 vs vv 9-20), with discreet edits suppressing the Shim'on-binding vividness and softening the spies-accusation, is mainstream-noted (Sarna, Alter). Commentary-only treatment correct."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:31","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; ASV-baseline preserved; kenim refrain governed by overlay entry."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:32","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; second einennu refrain occurrence; ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:33","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:34","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed; ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:35","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. tzarar and tzeror; BDB p. 865"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: tzeror kasp-o be-saqqo ... tzerorot kaspeihem. The tzeror-cluster cross-corpus reach (1 Sam 25:29 tzeror ha-chayim; Prov 7:20 tzeror ha-kesef; Hag 1:6 tzeror naquv; Cant 1:13 tzeror ha-mor) is genuine and borderline-central; overlay housing with promotion-path-note appropriate. ASV-baseline 'bundle of money' preserved (with the 1 Sam 25:29 tzeror ha-chayim cross-reference noted for cross-corpus consistency)."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:36","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. shakhol (Qal + Piel); BDB p. 1013; TDOT XV:11-15; Hillers Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophets BibOr 16 (1964); Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis SSN 17, 1975"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed independently: oti shikkaltem (Piel perf 2mp). The cross-Genesis arc Gen 27:45 (Rivkah eshkal) → Gen 42:36 (Ya'aqov shikkaltem) → Gen 43:14 (shakholti shakhalti) is textually verifiable and is one of the corpus's tightest cross-chapter lexical structures. The prophetic-covenantal cross-corpus reach (Lev 26:22, Deut 32:25, Jer 15:7 + 18:21, Hos 9:12 + 14, Ezek 5:17 + 14:15 + 36:13-14, Lam 1:20, Isa 47:8-9 + 49:20-21) is decisive for MANDATORY central housing. The Piel active-causative 'render childless' force preserved in 'me have ye bereaved of my children' ASV-baseline with dative-of-disadvantage oti. The einennu doubled-deployment (Yosef einennu ve-Shim'on einennu) properly observed as the refrain's climactic deployment. 'direct' classification confirmed. No WoH spin."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:37","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 292; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 p. 114; Alter Five Books of Moses 2004 p. 246"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: et shenei vanai tamit. The Re'uven-Yehudah-as-rival-guarantor literary contrast (this v 37 grandson-slaughter offer vs Gen 43:8-10 Yehudah's self-suretyship anokhi e'ervennu) and the Gen 49:3-4 deathbed-curse foreshadowing are mainstream consensus. Commentary-only treatment correct."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-42:38","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. seivah, ason, she'ol; BDB pp. 966, 62, 982; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 pp. 292-293; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 pp. 114-115; Sternberg Poetics of Biblical Narrative 1985 ch. 9; Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis SSN 17, 1975; Johnston Shades of Sheol 2002"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: ki achiv met ve-hu levaddo nishar ... u-kra'ahu ason ba-derekh ... ve-horadtem et seivati be-yagon She'olah. The patriarch's accepted-as-fact closure (met as flat fact, the chapter's deepest dramatic irony) is mainstream-noted. The seivah + She'olah grief-formula across the cycle (Gen 37:35 → 42:38 → 44:29 → 44:31) and the 1 Kgs 2:6 cross-corpus parallel are correctly documented. Three overlapping governing entries (sheol central appliesTo extended; ason overlay; seivah overlay) are architecturally clean. The 'She'olah' transliteration is corpus-wide convention; the realm-of-the-dead semantic range stays within ANE-cosmology mainstream — no later Christian 'hell' overtones and no WoH cosmological synthesis imported."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"shever-mashbir-grain-purchase-vocabulary-yosef-cycle","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. shever II and shavar II; BDB pp. 991-992; TDOT XV:35-36; Redford A Study of the Biblical Story of Joseph VTSup 20 (1970) pp. 178-186"],"reasoning":"Re-verified independently: the lexeme cluster's commercial register is grammatically explicit (HALOT distinguishes shever II from shever I); the cross-corpus prophetic/wisdom/post-exilic distribution (Isa 55:1; Amos 8:5; Prov 11:26; Neh 10:32) is documentary and justifies central housing. ASV-baseline 'grain' / 'to buy grain' / 'sold' is the direct rendering. 'direct' claim_type confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"shallit-ruler-aramaic-influenced-governance-lexeme","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. shallit; BDB p. 1115; TDOT XIV:587-590; Hurvitz A Linguistic Study CahRB 20 (1982) pp. 79-80"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the late-biblical-Hebrew + Aramaic-section Daniel distribution (Eccl 7:19; 8:8; 10:5; Dan 2:10, 15; 5:7, 16, 29; 6:27) is documentary; the Yosef-Daniel typological parallel (Gen 41-42 elevation → Dan 5 shallit promise) is mainstream-noted. Central housing justified by the cross-corpus reach. ASV-baseline 'governor' preserves the dominant tradition; alternatives documented. 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"ashem-asham-guilt-bearing-vocabulary","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. asham (noun and verb); BDB pp. 79-80; TDOT I:429-437 (Koch); NIDOTTE 1:553-557; Milgrom Cult and Conscience SJLA 18 (1976); Milgrom Leviticus 1-16 AB 1991 pp. 339-378"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the root-cluster's cross-corpus reach into the Levitical guilt-offering system (Lev 5-7, 14, 19; Num 5) and the prophetic guilt-language (Hos, Ezek, Jer, Joel, Zech) is foundational and decisive for MANDATORY central housing. The substantival ashemim parallel at 2 Sam 14:13 correctly identified. The moral-causal aval/al/al-ken grammar at Gen 42:21 is grammatically explicit. Rationale stays strictly within the cultic-prophetic-narrative theological frame; NO WoH synthesis on the brothers' confession (no Council-of-Eternals, no Elohim-as-civilization). 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"shakhol-bereavement-of-children-vocabulary","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. shakhol (Qal + Piel); BDB p. 1013; TDOT XV:11-15; Hillers Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophets BibOr 16 (1964); Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis SSN 17, 1975"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the Piel active-causative 'render childless' sense is morphologically transparent; the cross-Genesis arc Gen 27:45 → 42:36 → 43:14 (Rivkah's eshkal → Ya'aqov's shikkaltem → shakholti shakhalti) is textually verifiable as one of the corpus's tightest cross-chapter lexical structures. The covenant-curse + prophetic bereavement-formula cross-corpus reach (Lev 26:22; Deut 32:25; Jer 15:7 + 18:21; Hos 9:12 + 14; Ezek 5:17 + 14:15 + 36:13-14; Lam 1:20) is decisive for MANDATORY central. ASV-baseline 'me have ye bereaved of my children' preserves the dative-of-disadvantage oti and the Piel force. Rationale stays within the philological-literary-covenantal frame. 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"chei-x-oath-by-the-life-formula","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chai; BDB pp. 311-312; Lehmann 'Biblical Oaths' ZAW 81 (1969) 74-92; Greenberg 'The Hebrew Oath Particle ḥay/ḥē' JBL 76 (1957) 34-39; Blank HUCA 23 (1950-51) 73-95"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the chai-construct + named-one formula is the standard HB oath-construction; the chai-YHWH ~50+ attestation across Judg-Sam-Kgs-Jer-Hos-Ruth-Chr and the chei-king-name ANE court-oath parallel (with HB attestations 1 Sam 17:55, 2 Sam 11:11, 14:19) justify central housing. The maintained-disguise reading (Yosef-as-shallit choosing the court-appropriate formula) is mainstream-noted. 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"tzarah-distress-tribulation-vocabulary","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. tzarah I; BDB pp. 865-866; TDOT XII:438-449; Kraus Psalms 1-59/60-150 CC (1988/1989); Bright Jeremiah AB 1965 pp. 273-279; Wolff Hosea Hermeneia 1974 pp. 108-122"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the Psalmic ~30 occurrences + prophetic concentration (Isa, Jer, Hos, Obad, Jon, Nah, Hab, Zech) + wisdom (Prov) saturation justifies central housing. The Jer 30:7 eit-tzarah-le-Ya'aqov echo is mainstream-recognized as the prophetic-eschatological reuse of the patriarchal grief-vocabulary. The Hos 5:15 asham+tzar pairing parallels the Gen 42:21 confession exactly — independently verified. The moral-causal aval/al/al-ken structure at v 21 is grammatically explicit. 'direct' confirmed; no WoH spin."},{"glossary_id":"hishtachavah-bow-down-obeisance-worship","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chwh (Hishtaphel); BDB p. 1005 s.v. shachah (with superseded root-analysis); TDOT IV:248-256; Emerton OTS 20 (1977) 41-55; Coats CBQMS 4 (1976); Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis SSN 17 (1975); Gruber Aspects of Nonverbal Communication Studia Pohl 12 (1980)"],"reasoning":"Re-verified the long-anticipated promotion: the Hishtaphel of chwh (corrected from former Hithpael-of-shachah parse per Emerton's Ugaritic yštḥwy analysis) is morphologically and lexically explicit; the corpus-wide worship/prostration verb-status with hundreds of occurrences across all three semantic registers (homage-to-human / worship-of-deity / idolatrous-worship) is documentary; the Yosef-cycle dream-and-fulfilment arc Gen 37:7, 9, 10 → 42:6 → 43:26, 28; 44:14; 50:18 is one of the corpus's tightest cross-chapter lexical-keyword arcs; the apayim-artzah full-prostration formula correctly cross-referenced. The promotion at the Gen 42:6 first-fulfilment moment is the right editorial timing. The deletion of the overlay entry hishtachavah-obeisance-yosef-dreams is the right architectural treatment (the central appliesTo now covers exactly the same anchor-verses as the overlay did, plus the new Gen 42:6 fulfilment). 'direct' confirmed. Rationale stays strictly within the lexicographic-literary frame — NO WoH-cosmological synthesis on the bowing (no Council of Eternals, no Elohim-as-civilization; the bowing is documented in the homage-to-human-superior register, which is the philologically correct semantic register for the Yosef-cycle scenes)."},{"glossary_id":"sheol-underworld-realm-of-the-dead","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. she'ol; BDB p. 982; Johnston Shades of Sheol 2002"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-42:38 is scope-formalization of a decision the entry's existing rationale already names (cross-corpus paragraph explicitly cites Gen 42:38 and 44:29+31 as the Yosef-cycle She'ol-descent grief-formula occurrences). Re-confirmed independently."},{"glossary_id":"yirat-elohim-moral-restraint-motif","status":"approve","citations":["Becker Gottesfurcht im Alten Testament 1965; Derousseaux La crainte de Dieu 1970"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-42:18 is scope-formalization of a decision the entry's existing rationale already names (cross-corpus chain paragraph explicitly cites Gen 42:18 as Yosef's self-identification in the Egyptian-court setting reversing the Gen 20:11 Avraham pre-judgment). Re-confirmed independently."},{"glossary_id":"darosh-edrosh-dam","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. darash (Niphal); BDB p. 205; TDOT III:293-307"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-42:22 + the new 'Cross-reference (Gen 42:22, the Niphal counterpart)' rationale-extension paragraph is architecturally sound: the Niphal nidrash is the passive answer to the Gen 9:5 active triple-edrosh; the chain Gen 4:10 → Gen 9:5 → Gen 42:22 → Ezek 33:6 is one of the corpus's deepest forensic-theological arcs. The Re'uven self-implication observation (Gen 37:21-22) is mainstream and properly hedged. 'direct' classification retained."},{"glossary_id":"titra-u-hithpael-look-upon-one-another-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ra'ah (Hithpael); BDB p. 906"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the Hithpael-of-ra'ah reciprocal-reflexive 'look at one another' sense is grammatically and lexically explicit, but the construction is chapter-singular in Genesis with one cross-corpus parallel (2 Kgs 14:8 / 2 Chr 25:17 lekhah nitra'eh fanim, Amatzyah's military-challenge formula). The three readings (reciprocal-reflexive / display-reflexive / iterative) are not decisively resolved — 'inferred' classification appropriate. Overlay housing correct."},{"glossary_id":"ason-fatal-mischance-yaaqov-fear-formula-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ason; BDB p. 62; Jackson VT 23 (1973) 273-304; Houtman Exodus HCOT 1996"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the lexeme's five-occurrence HB distribution (Gen 42:4, 38; 44:29; Exod 21:22, 23) is exhaustive; the Exod 21:22-23 ason/no-ason distinction grammatically fixes the lethal force. The Ya'aqov-internal three-fold deployment (the patriarch's specific fear-term for the journey-calamity that might befall Binyamin) is textually verifiable. ASV modernization from KJV 'mischief' to 'harm' is philologically correct. 'direct' confirmed. Overlay with promotion-path-note appropriate."},{"glossary_id":"ervat-ha-aretz-nakedness-of-the-land-spy-idiom-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ervah; BDB p. 788; Milgrom Leviticus 17-22 AB 2000"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the chapter-internal pair (vv 9, 12) deploys the Lev 18/20 sexual-shame ervah in a transferred geopolitical sense (the land's strategically-vulnerable places). The transferred metaphor is intelligible (both senses share the 'shamefully-exposed-meant-to-be-covered' structure). ASV-baseline literal 'nakedness of the land' preserves the metaphor's force. 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"kenim-true-men-honest-men-protest-formula-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ken III; BDB p. 467"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the substantival-plural-of-persons kenim ('honest men, men of integrity') is the rare nominalized sense of ken III; the chapter-internal five-fold refrain (vv 11, 19, 31, 33, 34) is the brothers' running self-designation. The kenim ↔ ashemim (v 21) lexical contrast is the chapter's structural literary-theological irony — properly observed. ASV-baseline 'true men' retained for refrain-consistency. 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"mishmar-beit-mishmar-ward-prison-house-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. mishmar; BDB p. 1038"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the chapter's mishmar (v 17) / beit mishmar (v 19) custody-vocabulary; the same-or-different-facility relation with the Gen 39-40 beit ha-sohar is correctly noted as undecidable. 'inferred' classification appropriate. The three-day literary-threshold (Gen 22:4; 40:13-20; Hos 6:2; Jonah 2:1) is mainstream-noted. Overlay housing with cross-reference to central beit-ha-sohar architecturally clean."},{"glossary_id":"nakar-hitnakker-recognition-feigning-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. nakar (Hithpael); BDB p. 649; TDOT IX:423-432; Alter Art of Biblical Narrative 1981 ch. 1; Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis SSN 17 (1975); Gray I & II Kings OTL 1970 (on 1 Kgs 14:5-6)"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the chapter-singular Hithpael-of-nakar deployment (the only other HB Hithpael-of-nakar in this feigning-unrecognisability sense is the 1 Kgs 14:5-6 Achiyah/Yarov'am-wife scene) is morphologically explicit. The four-stage recognition-arc Gen 27:23 → 37:32-33 → 38:25-26 → 42:7-8 is textually verifiable as one of the patriarchal narratives' tightest structural threads. The sibling-overlay architecture (companion to the existing haker-na-nakar-recognition-motif) is appropriate. BIDIRECTIONAL CROSS-REFERENCE INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED: this entry's rationale names haker-na-nakar-recognition-motif by id; haker-na-nakar-recognition-motif's rationale names this entry by id. The bidirectional bug from the previous four chapters (Gen 39 le-tzachek, Gen 41 dream-doubling, Gen 41 ruach-elohim-in-a-person, post-draft Gen 41 corrective) is corrected at first-pass this time. 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"melitz-interpreter-rare-sense-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. lutz and melitz; BDB p. 539-540; Moran The Amarna Letters 1992; Fox Proverbs 1-9 AB 2000 pp. 39-43"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the chapter-specific 'court interpreter / translator' sense is effectively a hapax in this register within the HB; the cross-corpus melitz in mediator/spokesman/advocate senses (Job 33:23, Isa 43:27, 2 Chr 32:31) is correctly distinguished and reserved for those contexts. The ANE targumannu/dragoman institution at the Amarna letters and Egyptian-court records is well-attested. 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"kelim-sak-amtachat-sack-vocabulary-alternation-gen42-44","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. keli, saq, amtachat; BDB pp. 479, 974, 607; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 p. 112; Skinner Genesis ICC 1910 p. 472; von Rad Genesis OTL 1972 pp. 380-385"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the three-lexeme alternation (kelim/saq/amtachat) is grammatically and lexically explicit; the amtachat exhaustive Gen 42-44 restriction (twelve occurrences nowhere else in HB) is one of the corpus's most striking lexical-restriction phenomena. The three explanations (referential differentiation / stylistic synonymy / source-critical seam) are presented in report-don't-adjudicate posture — 'inferred' classification correct. ASV-baseline rendering flattens the alternation per the standard English-translation convention, with the lexical-distinctness carried in apparatus. Overlay architecturally clean."},{"glossary_id":"malon-lodging-place-wayfaring-stopover-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. malon and lin; BDB p. 533; Matthews BTB 21 (1991) 13-21"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the wayfaring-stopover/caravanserai sense is well-established; the KJV 'inn' anachronism critique is mainstream. Borderline cross-corpus reach (Gen 43:21; Exod 4:24; Josh 4:3+8; 2 Kgs 19:23 = Isa 37:24; Jer 9:1); overlay housing with promotion-path-note (especially the Exod 4:24 bridegroom-of-blood future-extension) is judicious. 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"yetze-libbam-heart-failed-idiom-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. yatza (heart-idiom uses); BDB p. 422; TDOT VII:399-437 (lev); Wolff Anthropology of the OT 1974 pp. 40-58; Pope Song of Songs AB 1977 (on Cant 5:6)"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the yatza-lev construction is chapter-singular in the HB; the Cant 5:6 nafshi yatz'ah parallel (X-yatza idiom-type with different vital-entity noun) is correctly identified as the structural analogue; the related heart-failing idiom-cluster (pug lev, namos lev, namog lev) uses different lexemes. ASV-baseline 'their heart failed them' renders the idiom-equivalent; the literal 'their heart went out' preserved-in-spirit. 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"tzeror-kesef-bundle-of-money-pouch-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. tzarar and tzeror; BDB p. 865"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: tzeror-cluster distribution (Gen 42:35; 1 Sam 25:29 tzeror ha-chayim; Prov 7:20 tzeror ha-kesef — strikingly the same mercantile idiom; Hag 1:6 tzeror naquv; Cant 1:13 tzeror ha-mor). Borderline cross-corpus reach; overlay housing with promotion-path-note appropriate. ASV-baseline 'bundle of money' retained for cross-corpus consistency with the tzeror ha-chayim Avigail-blessing echo. 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"seivah-gray-hairs-old-age-yaaqov-yosef-cycle","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. seivah and sav; BDB pp. 966-967; TDOT XIV:209-217; Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis SSN 17 (1975); Gray I & II Kings OTL 1970 (on 1 Kgs 2:6)"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: seivah as the metonymic 'gray-haired old age' lexeme distinct from zaqen and yashish; the Yosef-cycle Ya'aqov-internal three-fold deployment (Gen 42:38, 44:29, 44:31) all in the descent-to-She'ol grief-formula. The 1 Kgs 2:6 cross-corpus seivah + She'olah parallel (the only other HB occurrence of this construction) correctly identified. Borderline cross-corpus reach; overlay housing with promotion-path-note (Lev 19:32 honoring-the-aged; Davidic/Solomonic; wisdom) appropriate. 'direct' confirmed."},{"glossary_id":"einennu-refrain-yosef-cycle-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ayin; BDB pp. 34-35; Alter Five Books of Moses 2004 pp. 243-245; Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis SSN 17 (1975)"],"reasoning":"Re-verified: the negative-existential particle ayin + 3ms suffix construction; the cross-cycle arc Gen 37:30 (Re'uven's ha-yeled einennu) → Gen 42:13, 32, 36 (four chapter-internal deployments) → Gen 44:20, 26, 30 (forward-echoes) is textually verifiable as the Yosef-cycle missing-brother refrain. The deliberate-euphemism reading (brothers say einennu without committing to met; Ya'aqov says met at v 38) is grammatically explicit and mainstream-noted. The chapter-internal climactic doubling at v 36 (Yosef einennu ve-Shim'on einennu) correctly identified as the patriarch's grief-arithmetic. 'direct' confirmed; overlay housing appropriate."},{"glossary_id":"yosef-cycle-divine-name-alternation-yhwh-elohim","status":"approve","citations":["Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 pp. 60-63; Coats CBQMS 4 (1976); Redford VTSup 20 (1970) pp. 251-253"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-42:18 + 42:28 is scope-formalization. Independently verified: the chapter has zero YHWH-occurrences (narrator or character voice); the two Elohim-on-character's-lips occurrences (v 18 Yosef et ha-Elohim ani yarei; v 28 brothers mah zot asah Elohim lanu) confirm the cycle's Elohim-norm continuing outside the Gen 39 YHWH-frame anomaly. The narrator-voice carries no divine name in the chapter — a sustained Elohim-only-on-character's-lips pattern. The chapter-42 commentary at v 18 and v 28 properly attributes the providential-attribution reading to the brothers, with the Gen 45:5-8 Yosef-reformulation cross-noted; no WoH spin. MINOR architectural observation: the entry's existing rationale was not amended with a 'Scope-extension to Gen 42:18 + 28' addendum paragraph (the Gen 40:8 extension was given such a paragraph). This is a presentational inconsistency only — the appliesTo extension stands on the entry's existing logic — and is not a blocking issue."},{"glossary_id":"haker-na-nakar-recognition-motif","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. nakar (Hiphil); BDB p. 647; Alter Art of Biblical Narrative 1981 ch. 1; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 260"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-42:7 + 42:8 + the new 'Cross-references (Gen 42 culmination and the sibling-overlay link)' rationale-extension paragraph is architecturally clean. BIDIRECTIONAL CROSS-REFERENCE INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED (verified both ways): this entry's rationale names nakar-hitnakker-recognition-feigning-gen42 by id; that entry's rationale names this entry by id. The Hiphil-disclosure-by-demand vs Hithpael-concealment-by-feigning structural distinction is grammatically explicit. The four-stage recognition-arc Gen 27 → 37 → 38 → 42 is textually verifiable. 'inferred' classification (preserved from the original entry — the surface 'know now' is ASV but the substance is the nakar-recognition motif) retained."},{"glossary_id":"hishtachavah-obeisance-yosef-dreams","status":"approve","citations":["See glossary_id `hishtachavah-bow-down-obeisance-worship` (central, promoted) for the philological substance"],"reasoning":"DEPRECATION-AND-REMOVAL independently confirmed: the overlay entry is no longer present as a live `id` in `data-library/genesis-woh/_translation-glossary.json` (verified by grep — the only mention is in the scopeNote documenting the deprecation). The promotion-to-central is architecturally clean: the central entry's appliesTo now covers exactly the same anchor-verses the overlay did (Gen 37:7, 9, 10) plus the new Gen 42:6 fulfilment. The deprecation prevents dual-housing. CAVEAT: chapter-37.json's glossaryRefs arrays at vv 7, 9, 10 (lines 508, 530, 542) and its prose commentary still reference the deprecated id by string — flagged at the v 6 verse-level verdict; the historical reviewerReport block at chapter-37 line 373 is acceptable as a frozen record but the live glossaryRefs/prose need updating before publication."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:1",
        "text": "Now Ya'aqov saw that there was grain in Mitsrayim, and Ya'aqov said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:2",
        "text": "And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Mitsrayim: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:3",
        "text": "And Yosef's ten brethren went down to buy grain from Mitsrayim."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:4",
        "text": "But Binyamin, Yosef's brother, Ya'aqov sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:5",
        "text": "And the sons of Yisra'el came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Kena'an."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:6",
        "text": "And Yosef was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Yosef's brethren came, and made obeisance to him with their faces to the earth."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:7",
        "text": "And Yosef saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Kena'an to buy food."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:8",
        "text": "And Yosef knew his brethren, but they knew not him."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:9",
        "text": "And Yosef remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:10",
        "text": "And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:11",
        "text": "We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:12",
        "text": "And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:13",
        "text": "And they said, We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Kena'an; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:14",
        "text": "And Yosef said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:15",
        "text": "Hereby ye shall be proved: by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:16",
        "text": "Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:17",
        "text": "And he put them all together into ward three days."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:18",
        "text": "And Yosef said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear Elohim:"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:19",
        "text": "If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses:"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:20",
        "text": "And bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:21",
        "text": "And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:22",
        "text": "And Re'uven answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:23",
        "text": "And they knew not that Yosef understood them; for there was an interpreter between them."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:24",
        "text": "And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and he returned to them, and spake to them, and took Shim'on from among them, and bound him before their eyes."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:25",
        "text": "Then Yosef commanded to fill their vessels with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provisions for the way: and thus was it done unto them."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:26",
        "text": "And they laded their asses with their grain, and departed thence."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:27",
        "text": "And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:28",
        "text": "And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this that Elohim hath done unto us?"
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:29",
        "text": "And they came unto Ya'aqov their father unto the land of Kena'an, and told him all that had befallen them, saying,"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:30",
        "text": "The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:31",
        "text": "And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:"
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:32",
        "text": "We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Kena'an."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:33",
        "text": "And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way;"
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:34",
        "text": "and bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:35",
        "text": "And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:36",
        "text": "And Ya'aqov their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Yosef is not, and Shim'on is not, and ye will take Binyamin away: all these things are against me."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:37",
        "text": "And Re'uven spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again."
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-42:38",
        "text": "And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to She'ol."
      }
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