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    "language": "en",
    "book": "genesis-woh",
    "chapter": 43
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    "n": 43,
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    "bookCode": "GEN-WOH",
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    "title": "Genesis 43 — The brothers' second journey to Mitsrayim: Yehudah's surety-pledge, the second hishtachavah-fulfilment, and the stewardship feast",
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Bidirectional sibling cross-reference to `eravon-pledge-triad-signet-cord-staff` independently verified (each entry names the other by id in rationale prose); the moral-literary fulcrum claim (pledge-taker→pledge-offerer) is attested in Alter/Sternberg/Fokkelman. `inferred` claim_type appropriately reflects that the character-arc reading is interpretive between attested approaches. ASV 'I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him' preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:10","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *mahmah*; BDB p. 554"],"reasoning":"The new overlay `hitmahmah-tarry-delay-hithpalpel-gen43` is sound: rare Hithpalpel of *m-h-h*; cross-corpus deployments (Gen 19:16, Judg 3:26, 2 Sam 15:28, Hab 2:3) accurately catalogued; `inferred` defensible (the eschatological-Hab promotion-seed is interpretive); ASV 'except we had lingered' preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:11","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *zimrah* I/II, *devash*, *boten*, *shaqed*; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 298; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 p. 122"],"reasoning":"Three lexical clusters competently handled: (i) new overlay `zimrat-ha-aretz-choice-produce-gen43` distinguishes *zimrah* II (produce) from *zimrah* I (song), with HALOT lemma-distinction documented and the contested Exod 15:2 homophone left open — `inferred` defensible; (ii) existing overlay `nekhot-tzeri-lot-caravan-spices` appliesTo extension to v 11 with the four added aromatics (devash, botnim, shqedim) accurately documented in the rationale extension; (iii) sack-vocabulary scope-formalization sound. ASV-baseline aromatics-list preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:12","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *mishneh*, *mishgeh*, *shagah*"],"reasoning":"The new overlay `mishneh-kesef-double-money-mercantile-gen43` is sound: the *mishneh* doubling-vs-ordinal lexical-distinction is HALOT-supported; the *mishgeh* hapax with its Levitical *shegagah*-root link is accurately registered; cross-reference to sibling `mirkevet-ha-mishneh-chariot-of-the-second-gen41` is appropriate; `inferred` defensible (the rendering-and-distinction is interpretive between attested approaches); ASV 'double money' / 'peradventure it was an oversight' preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:13","status":"approve","citations":["ASV Gen 43:13"],"reasoning":"Bare imperative chain; ASV-baseline preserved verbatim."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:14","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *el-shaddai*, *rachamim*, *shakhol*; BDB pp. 994, 933, 1013; TDOT XIII:439-450 (rachamim); Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 298; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 p. 122; Sternberg *Poetics* 1985 pp. 290-308 (the resignation-formula)"],"reasoning":"Three central items competently handled. (i) The `el-shaddai` appliesTo extension and refId-normalization is sound; the existing central entry honestly registers the three modern etymologies (*shadad* / Akkadian *šadû* mountain / Deir 'Alla West-Semitic class-epithet) without committing, no WoH spin on Shaddai-cosmology — independently verified, the rationale uses only named scholarship and documentary epigraphic evidence. (ii) The new central `rachamim-compassion-womb-root` is well-grounded: the *rechem* → *rachamim* derivation is HALOT/BDB/TDOT-supported; cross-corpus distribution (Exod 34:6, Hos 2:21, Psalter etc.) verifiable; both divine-attribute and human-affection registers documented; NO WoH spin on the divine-attribute — independently verified, the rationale stays within priestly-blessing / prophetic / wisdom register-distinctions and named-scholarship etymology. (iii) `shakhol` appliesTo extension to v 14 with the Esther 4:16 *ka'asher avadti avadti* fatalistic-acceptance refrain cross-corpus parallel documented in the entry's rationale. ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:15","status":"approve","citations":["ASV Gen 43:15"],"reasoning":"Narrative recap; ASV-baseline preserved; *minchah* and *mishneh kesef* under glossary entries verified above."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:16","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *bayit* (asher al ha-bayit idiom); Mettinger *Solomonic State Officials* CBOT 5 (1971); Vergote *Joseph en Égypte* 1959 pp. 24-26"],"reasoning":"The new overlay `asher-al-ha-bayit-steward-idiom-gen43` is philologically solid: technical office-idiom with broad ANE cross-corpus reach (Kings, Isa 22:15-25 Shevna/Elyaqim, Egyptian *jmj-r3 pr* parallel); `direct` claim_type defensible; commentary on the *tabach tevach* paronomastic echo to the central `sar-ha-tabbachim-captain-of-the-guard` is a sound literary observation, not WoH spin. ASV 'steward of his house' preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:17","status":"approve","citations":["ASV Gen 43:17"],"reasoning":"Narrative recap; ASV-baseline preserved verbatim."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:18","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *galal* Hithpael, *naphal* Hithpael; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 299"],"reasoning":"The new overlay `hitgolel-hitnafel-violence-pair-gen43` accurately registers the chapter-singular Hithpael-pair violence-and-pretext idiom; cross-corpus rare-deployment of each lexeme documented; `inferred` defensible (the precise semantics of the in-series construction are interpretive); ASV 'seek occasion against us, and fall upon us' preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:19","status":"approve","citations":["ASV Gen 43:19"],"reasoning":"Narrative; ASV-baseline preserved; steward-idiom under v 16 overlay."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:20","status":"approve","citations":["ASV Gen 43:20"],"reasoning":"Brothers' diplomatic approach; ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:21","status":"approve","citations":["ASV Gen 43:21"],"reasoning":"Scope-formalization of `malon-lodging-place-wayfaring-stopover-gen42` and the sack-vocabulary overlay to v 21; commentary observation about the brothers' compressed retelling of Gen 42:27's *einennu*-shock is a sound literary note; ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:22","status":"approve","citations":["ASV Gen 43:22"],"reasoning":"Continuation of brothers' speech; ASV-baseline preserved; sack-vocabulary scope-formalization."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:23","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *matmon*, *taman*; BDB p. 380; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 299"],"reasoning":"Two items soundly handled: (i) `yosef-cycle-divine-name-alternation-yhwh-elohim` appliesTo extension to v 23 accurately registers the steward's twofold *Elohekhem ve-Elohei avikhem* (the chapter's third Elohim-on-character's-lips occurrence) — the rabbinic-vs-diplomatic ambiguity is honestly registered as undecidable; (ii) the new overlay `matmon-buried-treasure-gen43` is philologically solid (corpus's first attestation; Isa 45:3 Cyrus-prophecy cross-corpus reach noted as promotion-seed); `direct` claim_type defensible. ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:24","status":"approve","citations":["ASV Gen 43:24"],"reasoning":"Hospitality-protocol narrative; ASV-baseline preserved verbatim."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:25","status":"approve","citations":["ASV Gen 43:25"],"reasoning":"Narrative recap; ASV-baseline preserved; *minchah* under central entry."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:26","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *chwh* Hishtaphel; Emerton OTS 20 (1977) 41-55; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 300; Coats CBQMS 4 (1976); Fokkelman SSN 17 (1975); ASV Gen 43:26"],"reasoning":"**Second hishtachavah-fulfilment of Gen 37:7 sheaves-dream.** The central `hishtachavah-bow-down-obeisance-worship` appliesTo extension to v 26 is correctly motivated: this is the second fulfilment moment in the corpus's Gen 37→42:6→43:26 arc, with the eleven brothers (Binyamin now present) approaching the structurally-explicit sheaves-eleven dream. NO WoH cosmological synthesis on the bowing — the rationale's literary observation that the *minchah*+prostration redeploys Ya'aqov's Gen 32 Esav-appeasement strategy onto the disguised Yosef is a sound mainstream-noted reading (Coats, Fokkelman). The *minchah* appliesTo extension is also philologically sound (the Gen 32 Esav-appeasement vocabulary genuinely re-anchored to the Yosef stewardship-feast). ASV 'bowed down to him to the earth' preserved with the *artzah*-intensifier acknowledged."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:27","status":"approve","citations":["ASV Gen 43:27"],"reasoning":"Yosef's welfare-inquiry; ASV-baseline preserved verbatim."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:28","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *qadad*; HALOT s.v. *chwh* Hishtaphel; Gruber *Aspects of Nonverbal Communication* Studia Pohl 12 (1980)"],"reasoning":"**Second hishtachavah-occurrence in the chapter, with the *qadad*+*hishtachavah* paired-formula.** The new central `qadad-bow-the-head-paired-prostration-formula` is solidly grounded: fourteen-occurrence corpus-wide paired-formula distribution (Gen 24:26, 48; 43:28; Exod 4:31; 12:27; 34:8; Num 22:31; 1 Sam 24:8; 28:14; 1 Kgs 1:16, 31; 2 Chr 20:18; 29:30; Neh 8:6) verifiable; central housing on cross-corpus reach defensible; `direct` claim_type appropriate. The `hishtachavah` extension to v 28 is also sound. Ketiv/qere variant (וישתחו / וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲוּוּ) standard and uncontested. ASV 'bowed the head, and made obeisance' preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:29","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *chanan*; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 301; Westermann Genesis 37-50 1986 p. 124"],"reasoning":"Commentary-only observations sound: (i) the *ben-immo* Rachel-line marker is a mainstream literary observation (Sarna, Westermann, Alter) properly handled without a glossary entry; (ii) the verbal echo *yochanekha* ↔ Num 6:25 Aaronic-blessing *vichunnekka* (same Qal-jussive of *chanan*) is a legitimate philological observation; (iii) the `yosef-cycle-divine-name-alternation` extension to v 29 is sound (the cycle's Elohim-default sustained on Yosef's lips). ASV-baseline preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:30","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *kamar* I Niphal, *rachamim*; BDB p. 485; TDOT VII:153-159; J. Gray *I & II Kings* OTL 1970 (on 1 Kgs 3:26); H. W. Wolff *Hosea* Hermeneia 1974 pp. 202-203 (on Hos 11:8); Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 301"],"reasoning":"The new overlay `nikhmeru-rachamav-compassion-burning-idiom-gen43` is philologically excellent: the three-occurrence idiom-cluster (Gen 43:30, 1 Kgs 3:26 verbatim parallel in the Solomon-judgment true-mother scene, Hos 11:8 divine-pathos) is exhaustively verifiable; the womb-root anatomical-affective force documented within named scholarship (Wolff, Trible); `direct` claim_type defensible. Bidirectional sibling cross-reference to central `rachamim-compassion-womb-root` independently verified — each entry names the other by id in rationale prose; the central-overlay companion-pair pattern is correctly executed. NO WoH spin anywhere — independently verified. ASV 'his heart yearned over his brother' preserved with the KJV 'bowels did yearn' visceral-anatomical force documented in the rationale."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:31","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *afaq* Hithpael; BDB p. 67; Alter *Five Books of Moses* 2004 p. 247; Sternberg *Poetics* 1985 pp. 290-308"],"reasoning":"The new central `yitappaq-emotional-restraint-yosef-arc` is solidly grounded: the Hithpael of *afaq* is rare and load-bearing; the Gen 43:31 → Gen 45:1 structural antithesis (*va-yit'appaq* vs *lo yakhol le-hit'appeq*) is a mainstream-noted Yosef-cycle emotional-arc marker (Alter, Sternberg, Fokkelman); cross-corpus reach to Trito-Isaiah divine self-restraint (Isa 42:14; 63:15; 64:11) and the 1 Sam 13:12 Sha'ul scene + Esth 5:10 Haman parallel verifiable; central housing on cross-corpus reach defensible; `direct` claim_type appropriate. ASV 'refrained himself' preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:32","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *to'evah*; TDOT XV:591-604; BDB p. 1072; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 301; Vergote *Joseph en Égypte* 1959; D. B. Redford *A Study of the Biblical Story of Joseph* VTSup 20 (1970); Herodotus II.41"],"reasoning":"**MAJOR central addition: *to'evah*.** The new central `toevah-abomination-cross-corpus-keyword` is the most consequential entry in the pass and is philologically excellent: the four register-clusters (Priestly+H, Deuteronomic, prophetic with Ezekielian 43-occurrence concentration, wisdom with Proverbs 18-occurrence concentration) are accurately catalogued; the Gen 43:32 corpus-first attestation correctly identified; the evaluator-relative semantic core (`to'evah le-Mitzrayim` — to Egypt) is honestly handled. NO WoH spin on the priestly abomination-keyword — independently verified; the rationale stays within philological-historical scholarship. The ethnographic note on Egyptian dietary/social segregation cites Herodotus II.41 and the Vergote/Redford Egyptological scholarship — defensible historical observation, not WoH synthesis. `ha-ivri` extension and refId-normalization sound. `direct` claim_type defensible. ASV-baseline preserved with WoH proper-name transliterations."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:33","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *tamah*; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 301; Alter *Five Books of Moses* 2004 pp. 247-248; Sternberg *Poetics* 1985 ch. 8"],"reasoning":"The new overlay `tamah-marvel-impossible-knowledge-seating-gen43` accurately registers the literary-foreshadowing observation (the impossible-knowledge seating-by-birthright as identity-hint) within mainstream commentary; `inferred` claim_type appropriately reflects that the literary-foreshadowing reading is interpretive; cross-corpus *tamah* distribution accurate; ASV 'the men marvelled one with another' preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-43:34","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *mas'eit*, *yad* (portion-sense), *shakhar*; BDB pp. 673, 388, 1016; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 301; Alter *Five Books of Moses* 2004 p. 248"],"reasoning":"Three new overlay entries soundly handled: (i) `masot-court-feast-portions-gen43` — the stately court-meal portion-lexeme with 2 Sam 11:8 + Esth 2:18 court-context parallels; (ii) `chamesh-yadot-fivefold-portion-gen43` — the multiplier-construction with the Gen 41:34 *chimmesh* fifth-part-FRACTION lexical distinction cleanly drawn (different construction, same numeric root); (iii) `yishkeru-merry-or-drunk-gen9-gen43` — the *shakhar* drinking verb with the Gen 9:21 Noah-drunkenness echo documented as the corpus's literary cross-reference, with the ASV-euphemistic / NJPS-literal rendering choice honestly registered. All three `inferred`. NO censorious framing forced onto the celebratory v 34 surface — independently verified. ASV 'sent messes ... five times so much ... were merry with him' preserved."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"rachamim-compassion-womb-root","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *rachamim*; BDB p. 933; TDOT XIII:439-450; P. Trible *God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality* OBT 1978 ch. 2"],"reasoning":"Central placement defensible on overwhelming cross-corpus reach (Exod 34:6 divine-attribute formula; Deut, Isa, Hos, Psalter, etc.). The *rechem*→*rachamim* womb-root derivation is HALOT/BDB/TDOT-standard. `direct` claim_type appropriate. NO WoH spin on the divine-attribute — independently verified; rationale stays within priestly-blessing, prophetic, wisdom, and divine-attribute studies."},{"glossary_id":"toevah-abomination-cross-corpus-keyword","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *to'evah*; TDOT XV:591-604; Milgrom *Leviticus 17-22* AB (2000); Weinfeld *Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School* (1972)"],"reasoning":"Central placement defensible on corpus-wide saturation (Priestly+H, Deuteronomic, Ezekielian 43-occurrence concentration, Proverbs 18-occurrence concentration). Gen 43:32 corpus-first attestation correctly identified. Evaluator-relative semantic core honestly handled. `direct` claim_type appropriate. NO WoH spin on the priestly abomination-keyword — independently verified."},{"glossary_id":"qadad-bow-the-head-paired-prostration-formula","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *qadad*; Gruber *Aspects of Nonverbal Communication* Studia Pohl 12 (1980)"],"reasoning":"Central placement defensible on the fourteen-occurrence paired-with-*hishtachavah* formal-obeisance distribution. `direct` claim_type appropriate. The paired-formula function is a documented HB ritual-gesture pattern."},{"glossary_id":"haed-heid-solemn-warning-formula","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *ud* Hiphil; BDB pp. 729-730; TDOT X:495-515"],"reasoning":"Central placement defensible on the cross-corpus distribution (Sinai approach, Deuteronomic covenantal-witness, Samuel-Kings, Prophets, post-exilic). `direct` claim_type appropriate. The paronomastic infinitive-absolute construction is a standard HB intensifier."},{"glossary_id":"yitappaq-emotional-restraint-yosef-arc","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *afaq* Hithpael; BDB p. 67; Alter 1981 ch. 1; Sternberg 1985"],"reasoning":"Central placement defensible on the load-bearing Gen 43:31 → Gen 45:1 structural emotional-arc + Trito-Isaiah divine self-restraint cross-corpus reach. `direct` claim_type appropriate. NO WoH synthesis."},{"glossary_id":"hishtachavah-bow-down-obeisance-worship","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *chwh* Hishtaphel; Emerton OTS 20 (1977) 41-55; Coats CBQMS 4 (1976)"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-43:26 and GEN-WOH-43:28 is correctly motivated: these are the second-fulfilment occurrences of Yosef's Gen 37 sheaves-dream. The continued fulfilment-arc treatment stays literary, not cosmological."},{"glossary_id":"shakhol-bereavement-of-children-vocabulary","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *shakhol*; BDB p. 1013; Sternberg 1985 pp. 290-308"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-43:14 (Ya'aqov's *ka'asher shakholti shakhalti* fatalistic-acceptance refrain) is a sound scope-formalization completing the cross-Genesis arc Gen 27:45 → 42:36 → 43:14; the Esther 4:16 *ka'asher avadti avadti* cross-corpus parallel coherently documented in the rationale."},{"glossary_id":"el-shaddai","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *shaddai*; BDB p. 994; Cross *Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic* (1973); on Deir 'Alla *shdyn*: Hoftijzer & van der Kooij eds. *Aramaic Texts from Deir 'Alla* (1976)"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-43:14 with refId-normalization sound. The existing rationale honestly registers the three modern etymologies (*shadad*, Akkadian *šadû* 'mountain', West-Semitic class-epithet at Deir 'Alla) without committing — no WoH cosmological spin on Shaddai as 'the destroyer' / 'the mountainous one' / 'the breasted one'; debate is documented as named scholarship only."},{"glossary_id":"ha-ivri-hebrew-etymology","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *ivri*; LXX Gen 14:13 *peratēs*; Amarna *habiru* corpus"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-43:32 with refId-normalization sound. The existing rationale leaves the three-way etymology dispute open (Eber-eponymization / *eber* river-crossing / *habiru* social-class) within documented evidence."},{"glossary_id":"minchah-tribute-gift-of-appeasement","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *minchah*; BDB p. 585; TDOT VIII:407-421"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-43:11, 15, 25, 26 is a sound scope-formalization: the Gen 32-33 Esav-appeasement vocabulary genuinely redeployed in the Yosef stewardship-feast scene; the literary observation is mainstream-noted."},{"glossary_id":"arav-eravon-yehudah-surety-pledge-gen43-44","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *arav* I; BDB p. 786; Alter *Art of Biblical Narrative* 1981 ch. 1; Sternberg 1985 pp. 285-308; Fokkelman SSN 17 (1975)"],"reasoning":"Philologically solid. Verb morphologically explicit; cross-corpus distribution verifiable. The Gen 38→43→44 Yehudah-character-arc reading is mainstream-noted in Alter/Sternberg/Fokkelman/Sarna, not WoH synthesis. Bidirectional sibling cross-reference to Gen 38 `eravon-pledge-triad-signet-cord-staff` independently verified — both directions present in rationale prose by id. `inferred` claim_type defensible (the moral-literary fulcrum reading is interpretive between attested approaches). NO WoH spin."},{"glossary_id":"eravon-pledge-triad-signet-cord-staff","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *eravon*; BDB pp. 786, 368, 836, 641"],"reasoning":"Cross-reference paragraph extension naming the Gen 43-44 sibling by id verified; bidirectional cross-reference convention correctly honored; no change to entry's existing decisions."},{"glossary_id":"nikhmeru-rachamav-compassion-burning-idiom-gen43","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *kamar* I Niphal; J. Gray *I & II Kings* OTL 1970 (on 1 Kgs 3:26); H. W. Wolff *Hosea* Hermeneia 1974 pp. 202-203"],"reasoning":"Philologically excellent. The three-occurrence idiom-cluster (Gen 43:30, 1 Kgs 3:26 verbatim, Hos 11:8) is exhaustively verifiable. `direct` claim_type defensible. Bidirectional sibling cross-reference to central `rachamim-compassion-womb-root` independently verified — each entry names the other by id in rationale prose; the central-overlay companion-pair pattern correctly executed."},{"glossary_id":"hitmahmah-tarry-delay-hithpalpel-gen43","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *mahmah*; BDB p. 554; J. J. M. Roberts *Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah* OTL 1991 pp. 110-112"],"reasoning":"Sound. Hithpalpel of *m-h-h* with cross-corpus distribution accurately catalogued. `inferred` defensible. ASV-baseline preserved."},{"glossary_id":"zimrat-ha-aretz-choice-produce-gen43","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *zimrah* I and *zimrah* II (separate lemmata); Childs *Exodus* OTL 1974 pp. 240-244"],"reasoning":"Lemma-distinction (zimrah I song / II produce) HALOT-supported; the Exod 15:2 contested-homophone left open as it should be. `inferred` defensible."},{"glossary_id":"mishneh-kesef-double-money-mercantile-gen43","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *mishneh*, *mishgeh*"],"reasoning":"Doubling-vs-ordinal lexical distinction is sound; cross-reference to Gen 41 office-title sibling appropriate; *mishgeh* hapax handled with the *shegagah*-root link to the Levitical inadvertent-sin code. `inferred` defensible."},{"glossary_id":"asher-al-ha-bayit-steward-idiom-gen43","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *bayit*; Mettinger *Solomonic State Officials* CBOT 5 (1971); Vergote 1959 pp. 24-26"],"reasoning":"Technical office-idiom with documented ANE parallels (Egyptian *jmj-r3 pr*). `direct` claim_type defensible. Promotion-seed at Kings/Isa 22 royal-administration reach appropriately noted."},{"glossary_id":"hitgolel-hitnafel-violence-pair-gen43","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *galal* Hithpael, *naphal* Hithpael; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 299"],"reasoning":"Chapter-singular Hithpael-pair violence-and-pretext idiom; `inferred` defensible (the in-series construction's precise semantics are interpretive)."},{"glossary_id":"matmon-buried-treasure-gen43","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *matmon*, *taman*; BDB p. 380; Blenkinsopp *Isaiah 40-55* AB (2000)"],"reasoning":"Corpus's first attestation correctly identified; cross-corpus reach (Isa 45:3 Cyrus-prophecy; Jer 41:8; Job 3:21; Prov 2:4) verifiable; `direct` claim_type defensible."},{"glossary_id":"tamah-marvel-impossible-knowledge-seating-gen43","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *tamah*; Alter 2004 pp. 247-248; Sternberg 1985 ch. 8"],"reasoning":"Literary-foreshadowing reading is mainstream-noted (Sarna, Alter, Sternberg, Fokkelman); `inferred` claim_type honestly reflects the interpretive nature of the foreshadowing observation."},{"glossary_id":"masot-court-feast-portions-gen43","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *mas'eit*; McCarter *II Samuel* AB 1984; Levenson *Esther* OTL 1997"],"reasoning":"Stately court-meal portion-lexeme with 2 Sam 11:8 + Esth 2:18 court-context parallels accurately registered; `inferred` defensible."},{"glossary_id":"chamesh-yadot-fivefold-portion-gen43","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *yad* (portion-sense), *chamesh*; J. Skinner *Genesis* ICC 1910 p. 484"],"reasoning":"Multiplier-vs-fraction lexical distinction from Gen 41:34 *chimmesh* cleanly drawn; `inferred` defensible. The Skinner citation supports the numeric-root distinction."},{"glossary_id":"yishkeru-merry-or-drunk-gen9-gen43","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *shakhar*; D. M. Carr *Reading the Fractures of Genesis* 1996 pp. 102-104; Alter 2004 p. 248"],"reasoning":"Rendering choice between ASV-euphemistic 'were merry' and NJPS/Alter literal 'became drunk' honestly registered; Gen 9:21 Noah-drunkenness echo documented as literary cross-reference WITHOUT forcing a censorious surface on the celebratory v 34 — independently verified, the rationale leaves both readings open. `inferred` defensible."},{"glossary_id":"naar-lad-youth-or-attendant","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *na'ar*"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-43:8 (Binyamin in the affective 'young-one' register) is a sound scope-formalization; existing entry's documentation of the lexeme's wide age-range supports the extension."},{"glossary_id":"nekhot-tzeri-lot-caravan-spices","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *nekhot*, *tzeri*, *lot*, *devash*, *boten*, *shaqed*"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-43:11 with rationale extension documenting the four additional aromatics (devash, botnim hapax, shqedim) sound; the Gen 37:25 Yishme'elite caravan's three aromatics genuinely recur in Ya'aqov's gift-list."},{"glossary_id":"yosef-cycle-divine-name-alternation-yhwh-elohim","status":"approve","citations":["Friedman *Who Wrote the Bible?* (1987); Sarna JPS Genesis 1989"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-43:23 and GEN-WOH-43:29 sound: steward at v 23 and Yosef at v 29 both deploy Elohim, sustaining the cycle's Elohim-default; the rabbinic-vs-diplomatic ambiguity at v 23 is undecidable and properly left open."},{"glossary_id":"kelim-sak-amtachat-sack-vocabulary-alternation-gen42-44","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. *keli*, *sak*, *amtachat*"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to six v 11/12/18/21/22/23 recurrences is a sound scope-formalization tracking the chapter's sack-vocabulary alternation."},{"glossary_id":"malon-lodging-place-wayfaring-stopover-gen42","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. *malon*"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-43:21 sound; the brothers' diplomatic retelling of the Gen 42:27 *malon*-discovery is correctly identified."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:1",
        "text": "And the famine was sore in the land."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:2",
        "text": "And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Mitsrayim, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:3",
        "text": "And Yehudah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:4",
        "text": "If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:5",
        "text": "but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down; for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:6",
        "text": "And Yisra'el said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:7",
        "text": "And they said, The man asked straitly concerning ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we in any wise know that he would say, Bring your brother down?"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:8",
        "text": "And Yehudah said unto Yisra'el his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:9",
        "text": "I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:10",
        "text": "for except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:11",
        "text": "And their father Yisra'el said unto them, If it be so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:12",
        "text": "and take double money in your hand; and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:13",
        "text": "take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:14",
        "text": "and El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and Binyamin. And as for me, if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:15",
        "text": "And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Binyamin; and rose up, and went down to Mitsrayim, and stood before Yosef."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:16",
        "text": "And when Yosef saw Binyamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, Bring the men into the house, and slay, and make ready; for the men shall dine with me at noon."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:17",
        "text": "And the man did as Yosef bade; and the man brought the men to Yosef's house."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:18",
        "text": "And the men were afraid, because they were brought to Yosef's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:19",
        "text": "And they came near to the steward of Yosef's house, and they spake unto him at the door of the house,"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:20",
        "text": "and said, Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:21",
        "text": "and it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:22",
        "text": "And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food: we know not who put our money in our sacks."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:23",
        "text": "And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your Elohim, and the Elohim of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: your money came to me. And he brought Shim'on out unto them."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:24",
        "text": "And the man brought the men into Yosef's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:25",
        "text": "And they made ready the present against Yosef's coming at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:26",
        "text": "And when Yosef came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down to him to the earth."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:27",
        "text": "And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:28",
        "text": "And they said, Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive. And they bowed the head, and made obeisance."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:29",
        "text": "And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Binyamin his brother, his mother's son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, Elohim be gracious unto thee, my son."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:30",
        "text": "And Yosef made haste; for his heart yearned over his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:31",
        "text": "And he washed his face, and came out; and he refrained himself, and said, Set on bread."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:32",
        "text": "And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Mitsrim, that did eat with him, by themselves: because the Mitsrim might not eat bread with the Ivrim; for that is an abomination unto the Mitsrim."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:33",
        "text": "And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one with another."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-43:34",
        "text": "And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Binyamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him."
      }
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