Genesis 43:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ They said, “Your servant our father is well; he is still alive.” And they bowed their heads and did obeisance.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And they answered, Your servant our father is in good health; he is still alive. And they bowed down their heads and made obeisance.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ And they said, Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive. And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.

Common English Bible

²⁸ They said, “Your servant our father is fine. He’s still alive.” And they bowed down again with deep respect.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And they answered: "Your servant, our father, is safe; he is still alive." And bowing, they reverenced him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ And they answered: Thy servant, our father, is in health; he is yet living. And bowing themselves they made obeisance to him.

Genesis 43:28 Cross References

Genesis 37:7

There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright; then your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”

Genesis 43:26

When Joseph came home, they brought him the present that they had carried into the house and bowed to the ground before him.

2 Samuel 1:2

On the third day, a man came from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground and did obeisance.

2 Samuel 14:4

When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance and said, “Help, O king!”

1 Kings 1:16

Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance to the king, and the king said, “What do you wish?”

2 Chronicles 24:17

Now after the death of Jehoiada the officials of Judah came and did obeisance to the king; then the king listened to them.

Exodus 18:7

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law; he bowed down and kissed him; each asked after the other’s welfare, and they went into the tent.