Their bodies translates “they,” but the reference is of course to the bodies of Jacob and Joseph. In a number of languages were moved must be translated by an active phrase, indicating more specifically the action involved, e.g. “they carried the bodies back.” From the tribe of Hamor is a Semitic expression which reads literally “from the sons of Hamor.”

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on The Acts of the Apostles. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1972. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .