Genesis 43:28 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 43:28

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

“Your servant our father is well,” they answered. “He is still alive.” And they bowed down to honor him.

YLT

and they say, `Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive;' and they bow, and do obeisance.

DBT

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

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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12 verses on the floor

Proverbs 14:19
The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
Genesis 37:7
For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Genesis 18:2
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
Genesis 43:26
And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.
2 Samuel 14:4
And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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The great kindness that Joseph showed to them, while they little thought it was a brotherly kindness. His kind enquiry concerning Jacob: Is he yet alive? --a very fit question to be asked concerning any, especially concerning old people; for we are dying daily: it is strange that we are yet alive.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

GEN 43:28GEN 37:7 GEN 42:6
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GEN 43:28GEN 37:7 GEN 44:14
GEN 43:28GEN 37:7 GEN 43:26
GEN 43:28GEN 37:7 GEN 42:9
GEN 43:28GEN 43:26 PHP 2:10-11
GEN 43:28GEN 43:26 GEN 27:29
GEN 43:28GEN 43:26 GEN 37:19-20
GEN 43:28GEN 43:26 ROM 14:11

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