Give no thought to your goods is literally “Let not your eye look with regret on your possessions.” The king understands that Jacob and the brothers probably cannot bring all their camp baggage all the way to Egypt, and so he advises them, through Joseph, not to worry about leaving some of their possessions behind in Canaan. The plural verb and pronoun forms in the Hebrew show that the king is speaking to the brothers. We may translate, for example, “Don’t you [plural] be concerned about having to leave some of your possessions behind.” See Good News Translation.

For the best of all the land of Egypt is yours: this statement gives the reason why they should not worry in the previous sentence. For its translation see verse 18.

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 .