Genesis 42:29

29 When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them. They said,

Genesis 42:29 in Other Translations

29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,

29 When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying,

29 When the brothers came to their father, Jacob, in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that had happened to them.

29 When they got back to their father Jacob, back in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that had happened, saying,

29 When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them:

Genesis 42:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 42:29

And they came unto Jacob their father, unto the land of
Canaan
Without being pursued and fetched back, or retarded in their journey as they might fear: and told him all that befell unto them;
chiefly what befell them while in Egypt: saying,
as follows.

Genesis 42:29 In-Context

27 At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.

28 “My silver has been returned,” he said to his brothers. “Here it is in my sack.” Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”

29 When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them. They said,

30 “The man who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us and treated us as though we were spying on the land.

31 But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.

Cross References

• 1. S ver 5
• 2. Genesis 44:24