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Judah Pleads for Benjamin

Genesis 44:24

In 11 translations

BSB
Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.
KJV
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
WEB
When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
ASV
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
LSV
And it comes to pass, that we have come up to your servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;
YLT
'And it cometh to pass, that we have come up unto thy servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;
DBY
And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
DRC
Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told him all that my lord had said.
GNV
So when we came vnto thy seruant our father, and shewed him what my lord had sayd,
JPS
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
LXXE
And it came to pass, when we went up to thy servant our father, we reported to him the words of our lord.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיְהִי֙ כִּ֣י עָלִ֔ינוּ אֶֽל־עַבְדְּךָ֖ אָבִ֑י וַנַּ֨גֶּד־ל֔וֹ אֵ֖ת דִּבְרֵ֥י אֲדֹנִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Ἐγένετο δὲ ἡνίκα ἀνέβημεν πρὸς τὸν παῖδά σου πατέρα ἡμῶν, ἀπηγγείλαμεν αὐτῷ τὰ ῥήματα τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν.

Who and where

◆ Joseph's brothers return to Egypt

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 42:29–34When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them: “The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country. But we told…

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