Genesis 44:24
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis 44:24 in other translations
| BSB | Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him. |
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| 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. |
| 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; |
| DARBY | And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. |
| BBE | And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words. |
| Webster | And it came to pass, when we came to thy servant, my father, we told him the words of my lord. |
What does Genesis 44:24 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 44:16-34
16-34. Judah said, What shall we say?--This address needs no comment--consisting at first of short, broken sentences, as if, under the overwhelming force of the speaker's emotions, his utterance were choked, it becomes more free and copious by the effort of speaking, as he proceeds. Every word finds its way to the heart; and it may well be imagined that Benjamin, who stood there speechless like a victim about to be…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 44:18-34
Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them. Judah's faithful cleaving to Benjamin, now, in his distress, was recompensed long afterwards by the tribe of Benjamin keeping with the tribe of Judah, when the other tribes deserted it. The…
Genesis 44:24 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 44:24
- Genesis 42:29-34
And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying, The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies: We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. …
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Context
- Genesis 44:23
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
- Genesis 44:24
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
- Genesis 44:25
And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
Genesis 44:24 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Aconteció pues, que como llegamos á mi padre tu siervo, contámosle las palabras de mi señor. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il est arrivé, quand nous sommes montés vers ton serviteur, mon père, que nous lui avons rapporté les paroles de mon seigneur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und es geschah, als wir hinaufgezogen waren zu deinem Knechte, meinem Vater, da berichteten wir ihm die Worte meines Herrn. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cum ergo ascendissemus ad famulum tuum patrem nostrum, narravimus ei omnia quæ locutus est dominus meus. |