וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֜ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל אֲבִיהֶ֗ם אִם־כֵּ֣ן ׀ אֵפוֹא֮ זֹ֣את עֲשׂוּ֒ קְח֞וּ מִזִּמְרַ֤ת הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ בִּכְלֵיכֶ֔ם וְהוֹרִ֥ידוּ לָאִ֖ישׁ מִנְחָ֑ה מְעַ֤ט צֳרִי֙ וּמְעַ֣ט דְּבַ֔שׁ נְכֹ֣את וָלֹ֔ט בָּטְנִ֖ים וּשְׁקֵדִֽים׃
Lalu Israel, ayah mereka, berkata kepada mereka: “Jika memang demikian, lakukanlah ini: ambillah hasil terbaik negeri ini dalam wadah-wadahmu, dan bawalah turun kepada orang itu sebagai hadiah: sedikit balsam dan sedikit madu, lilin lebah dan damar ladanum, kacang pistasio dan buah badam.
Ibn Ezra
זמרו Sing. Comp. זמרת the best fruit (Gen. 43:11). Lit. Give the best and choicest thing.
German Commentary
oder Räuber. לסטים ist ein griechisches Wort ὁ ληστής = der Räuber. Es ist auffallend, dass das Wort לסטים immer im Plural vorkommt und nicht im Singular. Wahrscheinlich ist es ein Schreibfehler, indem man das ס mit ם verwechselte. Ein Analogon findet sich in Genesis 43, 11, wo Onkelos ולט übersetzt ולטום statt ולטוס.
Radak
ותקרא, the reason why Hagar called G'd א-ל ראי, was that she oly realized in retrospect that she had been addressed by an angel, i.e. by an angel who brought her G'd's message. She had not previously believed that a human being could behold an angel with her physical eyes, a lesson also learned by Manoach in Judges 13,22. As soon as she notice how this messenger who had appeared to her in human garb disappeared in less time than it takes to blink an eye, she knew that that being had been an angel and she called out "you are the angel who manifests G'd's presence." She meant that she had seen a Divine being that is capable of being perceived as such by man. The construction "ro-i" is similar to the construction "o-ni" in Lamentation 3.1 or in "do-mi" in Psalms 83,2, or in Genesis 43,11, "tzo-ri."