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10 After all, if we hadn’t delayed, we could have been there and back[a] twice by now!”

Jacob Gives Instructions for the Trip

11 “If that’s the way it has to be,” their father Israel replied, “then do this: take some of the best produce of the land in your containers and take them to the man as a gift—some resin ointment, some honey, fragrant resins, myrrh, pistachios, and almonds. 12 Also take twice as much money with you so you can return the money that had been replaced in the mouth of your sacks. Maybe it was an accounting[b] mistake on his part.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 43:10 Lit. have returned
  2. Genesis 43:12 The Heb. lacks accounting