Genesis 43:28 ““Your servant our father is well,” they answered. “He is still alive.”…”

Genesis 43:28

“Your servant our father is well,” they answered. “He is still alive.” And they bowed down to honor him.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.

World English Bible

They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.

American Standard Version

And they said, Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive. And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.

Geneva Bible 1599

Who answered, Thy seruant our father is in good health, he is yet aliue: and they bowed downe, and made obeysance.

Darby Translation

And they said, Thy servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And they bowed, and made obeisance.

Young's Literal Translation

and they say, 'Thy servant our father [is] well, he is yet alive;' and they bow, and do obeisance.

Bible in Basic English

And they said, Your servant, our father, is well, he is still living. And they went down on their faces before him.

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Cross references

“bowed”

Genesis 37:7 Genesis 43:26 Genesis 37:9 Genesis 37:10

Genesis 37:7 · BSB

We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

Genesis 43:26 · BSB

When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought, and they bowed to the ground before him.

Genesis 37:9 · BSB

Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Genesis 37:10 · BSB

He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

“made obeisance”

Exodus 18:7 2 Samuel 1:2 2 Samuel 14:4 1 Kings 1:16 2 Chronicles 24:17

Exodus 18:7 · BSB

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.

2 Samuel 1:2 · BSB

On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.

2 Samuel 14:4 · BSB

When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”

1 Kings 1:16 · BSB

And Bathsheba bowed down in homage to the king, who asked, “What is your desire?”

2 Chronicles 24:17 · BSB

After the death of Jehoiada, however, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27He asked if they were well, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?”

29When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” Then he declared, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

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