Take double the money with you: Jacob’s instructions are that they should take twice as much money as they did on the first trip. With you is literally “in your hand.” They are to return the money they found in the top of their grain sacks, and take additional money to buy more grain.

Perhaps it was an oversight: this refers to the placing of the money in the grain sacks. Oversight means an unintentional error or mistake.

Quoted with permission from Reyburn, William D. and Fry, Euan McG. A Handbook on Genesis. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1997. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .