Behold, I have this day …: Behold expresses a call for attention before the command that the people plant their farms: “Listen!” (Revised English Bible). Good News Translation says “You see….” It may also be considered as the introduction to a proclamation or formal declaration: “These are my orders:….” New Jerusalem Bible says “This is how we stand:….”

Bought you … for Pharaoh may need to be expressed as “I have bought you [plural] and your farms, and now the king is your owner.”

And you shall sow the land: that is, “you [plural] go now and plant your fields” or “… plant your gardens.”

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 .