He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
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He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
Then he asked them about wellbeing, and he said, “ well your aged father whom you spoke about? Is he still alive?”
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He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
He asked if they were well, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?”
He asked if they were well, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?”
And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
And he asked them of their prosperitie, and sayd, Is your father the olde man, of whome ye tolde me, in good health? is he yet aliue?
But 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?
and he asketh of them of peace, and saith, `Is your father well? the aged man of whom ye have spoken, is he yet alive?'
and he asks of them of peace and says, “Is your father well? The aged man of whom you have spoken, is he yet alive?”
He asked them about their welfare and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?”
Then he asked them about wellbeing, and he said, “ well your aged father whom you spoke about? Is he still alive?”
And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well -- the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?
He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”
\\43:28\\And they answered, Thy servant, our father, is in good health, he is yet alive: and they bowed their heads and made obeisance.
He asked how they were, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father doing that you spoke of? Is he still alive?”
And they said, Your servant, our father, is well, he is still living. And they went down on their faces before him.
And he asked them of their welfare, and said: 'Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?'
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 27 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל לָהֶם֙ לְשָׁל֔וֹם וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הֲשָׁל֛וֹם אֲבִיכֶ֥ם הַזָּקֵ֖ן אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲמַרְתֶּ֑ם הַעוֹדֶ֖נּוּ חָֽי
He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἐρωτάω δέ αὐτός πῶς ἔχω καί εἶπον αὐτός εἰ ὑγιαίνω ὁ πατήρ σύ ὁ πρεσβύτερος ὅς εἶπον ἔτι ζάω
And he asked them, How are you⌃? and he said to them, Is your father, the old man of whom you⌃ spoke, well? Does he yet live?
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וּשְׁאֵיל לְהוֹן לִשְׁלַם וַאֲמַר הַשְׁלַם אֲבוּכוֹן סָבָא דִּי אֲמַרְתּוּן הַעַד כְּעַן קַיָּם
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וּשְׁאֵיל לְהוֹם לִשְׁלָם וַאֲמַר הַשְׁלָם לַאֲבוּכוֹן סָבָא דַאֲמַרְתּוּן לִי הַעוֹד כְּדוֹן קַיָים
And Joseph saluted them, and said, Is it well with your father, the old man of whom you told me? Is he still alive?
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâʼal (“to ask”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 43:27 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.