27He asked them how they were, and then he said, "How is your aged father you told me about? Is he still living?"


In Context

24 The steward took the men into Joseph's house, gave them water to wash their feet and provided fodder for their donkeys.

25 They prepared their gifts for Joseph's arrival at noon, because they had heard that they were to eat there.

26 When Joseph came home, they presented to him the gifts they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.

27 He asked them how they were, and then he said, "How is your aged father you told me about? Is he still living?"

28 They replied, "Your servant our father is still alive and well." And they bowed low to pay him honor.

29 As he looked about and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son, he asked, "Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?" And he said, "God be gracious to you, my son."

Genesis 43:27 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

43:27And he asked them of [their] welfare, and said, [Is] your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? [Is] he yet alive?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

43:27But he, courteously saluting them again, asked them, saying: Is the old man your father in health, of whom uou told me? Is he yet living?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

43:27And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

43:27And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

43:27And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

43:27And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

43:27He asked them of their welfare, and said, |Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

43:27and he asketh of them of peace, and saith, 'Is your father well? the aged man of whom ye have spoken, is he yet alive?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

43:27And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?