25 The verb גָּנַב (ganav) means “to steal,” but in the Piel/Pual stem “to steal away.” The idea of “kidnap” would be closer to the sense, meaning he was stolen and carried off. The preceding infinitive absolute underscores the point Joseph is making.

In other versions

For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”

I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.”

For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should put me in the dungeon.”

For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land of the Hebrews, and now I’m here in prison, but I did nothing to deserve it.”

For I was surely kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me in this pit.”

For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

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