Chuàngshìjì 37:14

14 Yǐsèliè shuō , nǐ qù kàn kān nǐ gēge men píngān bù píngān , qún yáng píngān bù píngān , jiù huí lái bàoxìn gĕi wǒ . yúshì dǎfa tā chū Xībǎilún gǔ , tā jiù wàng Shìjiàn qù le .

Chuàngshìjì 37:14 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 37:14

And he said to him, go, I pray thee
Or "now" ^F11, directly, immediately, which is more agreeable to the authority of a father:

see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks;
it having been many days, and perhaps months, since he had heard anything of them; and the rather Jacob might be under a concern for them, because of the danger they were exposed to from the neighbouring tribes and nations of the Canaanites, on account of their having some time ago destroyed the Shechemites; so the Targum of Jonathan, paraphrasing on the preceding part, makes Jacob to say,

``I am afraid, lest the Horites should come and smite them, because of their smiting Hamor and Shechem, and the inhabitants of that city; come, and I will send thee''

and bring me word again;
of their welfare, and of the state of their flocks:

so he sent him out of the vale of Hebron:
the same with the plains of Mamre near the city of Hebron, which was built on a hill:

and he came to Shechem:
after he had travelled sixty miles.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (an) "nunc", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius.

Chuàngshìjì 37:14 In-Context

12 Yūesè de gēge men wàng Shìjiàn qù fàng tāmen fùqin de yáng .

13 Yǐsèliè duì Yūesè shuō , nǐ gēge men bú shì zaì Shìjiàn fàng yáng ma . nǐ lái , wǒ yào dǎfa nǐ wàng tāmen nàli qù . Yūesè shuō , wǒ zaì zhèlǐ .

14 Yǐsèliè shuō , nǐ qù kàn kān nǐ gēge men píngān bù píngān , qún yáng píngān bù píngān , jiù huí lái bàoxìn gĕi wǒ . yúshì dǎfa tā chū Xībǎilún gǔ , tā jiù wàng Shìjiàn qù le .

15 Yǒu rén yùjiàn tā zaì tiānyĕ zǒu mí le lù , jiù wèn tā shuō , nǐ zhǎo shénme ,

16 Tā shuō , wǒ zhǎo wǒde gēge men , qiú nǐ gàosu wǒ , tāmen zaì héchu fàng yáng .