Genesis 43:28
Good News Translation
They answered, "Your humble servant, our father, is still alive and well." And they knelt and bowed down before him.

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

Contemporary English Version
They answered, "Your servant our father is still alive and well." And again they bowed down to Joseph.

New American Bible
“Your servant our father is still alive and doing well,” they said, as they knelt and bowed down.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

bowed.

Genesis 43:26 Then Joseph came in to his house, and they offered him the presents, holding them in their hands; and they bowed down with their face to the ground.

Genesis 37:7,9,10 I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf. . . .

made obeisance.

Exodus 18:7 And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed him: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was come into the tent,

2 Samuel 1:2 And on the third day, there appeared a man who came out of Saul's camp, with his garments rent, and dust strewed on his head: and when he came to David, he fell upon his face, and adored.

2 Samuel 14:4 And when the woman of Thecua was come in to the king, she fell before him upon the ground, and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king.

1 Kings 1:16 Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king. And the king said to her: What is thy will?

2 Chronicles 24:17 And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and worshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened to them.

Context
Joseph's Hospitality to His Brothers
27But he courteously saluting them again, asked them, saying: Is the old man your father in health, of whom you told me? Is he yet living? 28And they answered: Thy servant our father, is in health; he is yet living. And bowing themselves, they made obeisance to him.29And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin, his brother by the same mother, and said: Is this your young brother, of whom you told me? And he said: God be gracious to thee, my son.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:7
I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf.

Genesis 37:10
And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his father rebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?

Exodus 18:7
And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed him: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was come into the tent,

Genesis 43:27
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