Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

New American Standard Bible

My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’

King James Version

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

Holman Bible

My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

International Standard Version

Your Excellency asked his servants, "Do you have a father or brother?'

American Standard Version

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

Amplified

My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’

Bible in Basic English

My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother?

Darby Translation

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

Julia Smith Translation

My lord didst ask thy servants, saying, Is there a father to you, or a brother?

King James 2000

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father, or a brother?

Lexham Expanded Bible

My lord had asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'

Modern King James verseion

My lord asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or a brother?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My lord asked his servant, saying, 'Have ye a father or a brother?'

NET Bible

My lord asked his servants, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'

New Heart English Bible

My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

The Emphasized Bible

It was, my lord, who asked his servants, saying, - Have ye a father, or a brother?

Webster

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

World English Bible

My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

Youngs Literal Translation

My lord hath asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father or brother?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
My lord
אדן אדון 
'adown 
Usage: 335

שׁאל שׁאל 
Sha'al 
Usage: 172

עבד 
`ebed 
Usage: 800

ישׁ 
Yesh 
is, be, have, there,
Usage: 135

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Joseph Tests His Brothers

18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh, my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant, for thou are even as Pharaoh. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 20 And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. And his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.



Cross References

Genesis 43:7

And they said, The man asked diligently concerning ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? Have ye [another] brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we in any way know

Genesis 42:7-10

And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself foreign to them, and spoke roughly with them. And he said to them. From where come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

Genesis 43:29

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom ye spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to thee, my son.

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