Genesis 43:27
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He asked if they were well, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?”
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When the corn brought from Egypt was all consumed, as the famine still continued, Jacob called upon his sons to go down and fetch a little corn (little in proportion to their need).
Open source ↗Here the story of Joseph's brethren is carried on, and very particularly related I. Their melancholy parting with their father Jacob in Canaan (Gen 43:1-14). II. Their pleasant meeting with Joseph in Egypt (Gen 43:15, etc.). For on this occasion nothing occurs there but what is agreeable and pleasant.
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But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
“I myself cannot do it,” Joseph replied, “but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer.”
Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
he sent his son Hadoram to greet King David and bless him for fighting and defeating Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold and silver and bronze,
We are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.”
So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name
Then David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were doing.
So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.
So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.
They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”