Genesis 43:25

43:25 They got their gifts ready for Joseph’s arrival41 at noon, for they had heard42 that they were to have a meal43 there.

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41	tn The construction uses the infinitive construct after the preposition, followed by the subjective genitive.
42	tn The action precedes the action of preparing the gift, and so must be translated as past perfect.
43	tn Heb “eat bread.” The imperfect verbal form is used here as a historic future (future from the perspective of the past).