Genesis 46:5

וַיָּקָם יַעֲקֹב מִבְּאֵר שָׁבַע וַיִּשְׂאוּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת־יַעֲקֹב אֲבִיהֶם וְאֶת־טַפָּם וְאֶת־נְשֵׁיהֶם בָּעֲגָלוֹת אֲשֶׁר־שָׁלַח פַּרְעֹה לָשֵׂאת אֹתֽוֹ׃

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✦ The same verse in five languages

Hebrew

וַיָּ֥קָם יַעֲקֹ֖ב מִבְּאֵ֣ר שָׁ֑בַע וַיִּשְׂא֨וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶת־יַעֲקֹ֣ב אֲבִיהֶ֗ם וְאֶת־טַפָּם֙ וְאֶת־נְשֵׁיהֶ֔ם בָּעֲגָל֕וֹת אֲשֶׁר־שָׁלַ֥ח פַּרְעֹ֖ה לָשֵׂ֥את אֹתֽוֹ׃

Greek (Septuagint)

ἀνέστη δὲ Ἰακὼβ ἀπὸ τοῦ φρέατος τοῦ ὅρκου, καὶ ἀνέλαβον οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν ἀποσκευὴν καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὰς ἁμάξας ἃς ἀπέστειλεν ἸωσὴΦ δρᾶι αὐτόν·

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Surrexit autem Jacob a Puteo juramenti: tuleruntque eum filii cum parvulis et uxoribus suis in plaustris quæ miserat Pharao ad portandum senem,

Spanish

Jacob se marchó de Beerseba, y los hijos de Israel llevaron a su padre Jacob, junto con sus niños y sus esposas, en las carretas que el faraón había enviado para transportarlo.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y levantóse Jacob de Beer-seba; y tomaron los hijos de Israel á su padre Jacob, y á sus niños, y á sus mujeres, en los carros que Faraón había enviado para llevarlo.

English

Then Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.

✦ What the text says

Summary

The verse narrates Jacob's departure from Beer-sheba and the action of his sons ("the sons of Israel") in transporting him, along with the children and wives, using the carts that Pharaoh had sent for that purpose.

Key words

va-iYakom ("and he arose", H6965B) — qal narrative verb, marking the sequential action that opens the verse: Jacob's rising/departing.
va-iyis'U ("and they carried", H5375H) — qal narrative verb, third person masculine plural, indicating the collective action of "the sons of Israel" as the grammatical subject.
avi-Hem ("their father", H0001G + H9028) — construct noun with pronominal suffix, literally "father-of-them," identifying Jacob's relation to the sons who carry him.
ta.Pam ("their little ones", H2945 + H9028) — construct singular noun with collective sense ("little one[s]") plus suffix, referring to the dependents transported.
asher-shaLach ("which he had sent", H0834A + H7971G) — relative particle plus qal perfect verb, forming a subordinate clause describing the carts as objects previously sent by Pharaoh.

What the text says

The verse divides into two narrative movements joined by the sequential vav construction typical of Biblical Hebrew narrative prose. The first clause, va-iYakom Ya'aqov mi-Be'er Shava' ("and Jacob arose from Beer-sheba"), uses the qal narrative form of yakom (H6965B) to mark a single completed action that advances the story from the previous verse. The second clause shifts subject to bene Yisra'el ("sons of Israel", H1121A construct + H3478), who perform the verb yis'u ("they carried", H5375H), the same root later repeated in the infinitive laset ("to carry", H5375H) at the end of the verse, framing the whole action of transport.

The direct objects are marked three times with the untranslated particle 'et (H0853): first 'et-Ya'aqov avihem ("Jacob their father"), then 'et-tapam ("their little ones"), then 'et-nesehem ("their wives"). Each object noun is in construct form with a third-person plural suffix (-hem), showing that father, dependents, and wives are grammatically bound to "the sons of Israel" as the possessing group. The final relative clause, introduced by asher (H0834A), specifies that the carts (agalot, H5699) were the same ones sha lach Par'oh ("Pharaoh had sent", qal perfect, H7971G), closing the verse by returning to the earlier gift of transport and its stated purpose, laset oto ("to carry him", infinitive + suffix), referring back to Jacob.

Differences between versions

The LXX names the sender of the carts as Iōsēph ("Joseph") rather than Pharaoh, differing from the Hebrew paroh (H6547H, "Pharaoh") and from the Vulgate's Pharao, which both agree with the Masoretic Hebrew on this point. The Vulgate renders the final phrase ad portandum senem ("to carry the old man"), where the Hebrew and LXX simply have a pronominal object ("him"/auton) without the noun "old man."

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.