Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Thus it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

King James Version

And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Holman Bible

“This is what happened when we went back to your servant my father: We reported your words to him.

International Standard Version

Later on, after we had gone back to your servant, my father, we told him what Your Excellency had said.

A Conservative Version

And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

American Standard Version

And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Amplified

So when we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.

Bible in Basic English

And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.

Darby Translation

And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Julia Smith Translation

And it shall be when we went up to thy servant our father, and announced. to him the words of, my lord.

King James 2000

And it came to pass when we came up unto your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And it happened [that] we went up to your servant, my father, and told him the words of my lord.

Modern King James verseion

And it happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And when we came unto thy servant our father, we showed him what my lord had said.

NET Bible

When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

New Heart English Bible

It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

The Emphasized Bible

So it came to pass when we had gone up unto thy servant, my father, that we told him the words of my lord.

Webster

And it came to pass, when we came to thy servant, my father, we told him the words of my lord.

World English Bible

It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Youngs Literal Translation

'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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And it came to pass when we came up
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

עבד 
`ebed 
Usage: 800

we told
נגד 
Nagad 
Usage: 370

him the words
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

References

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Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Joseph Tests His Brothers

23 You said to your servants, however, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’ 24 Thus it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25 Our father said, ‘Go back, buy us a little food.’

Cross References

Genesis 42:29-34

When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying,

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