וַתֹּ֧אמֶר ל֣וֹ אִשְׁתּ֗וֹ לוּ֩ חָפֵ֨ץ יְהוָ֤ה לַהֲמִיתֵ֙נוּ֙ לֹֽא־לָקַ֤ח מִיָּדֵ֙נוּ֙ עֹלָ֣ה וּמִנְחָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א הֶרְאָ֖נוּ אֶת־כָּל־אֵ֑לֶּה וְכָעֵ֕ת לֹ֥א הִשְׁמִיעָ֖נוּ כָּזֹֽאת׃
Sa femme lui répartit: "Si l’Éternel avait voulu nous faire mourir, il n’aurait pas accepté de notre part holocauste et oblation; il ne nous aurait pas montré tous ces prodiges, ni fait à cette heure une telle prédiction."
Sforno
הורידוהו לאיש מנחה, before you will actually meet him face to face again. This will enable you to judge if he receives your gift with goodwill. If he does, you will have reason to be confident that he will receive you also with goodwill. This thought has also been expressed in Judges 13,23 when the wife of Manoach, in trying to calm her husband’s fears, said to him: “if G’d had wanted to kill us He would not have accepted our burnt-offering and our gift-offering first.” After this conversation,
Rav Hirsch
נחש (siehe Bereschit 44, 5). – קסם (daselbst 11, 6). – כעת wie וכעת לא השמיענו כזאת (Richter 13, 23).