And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass, when we came unto thy servant my father,.... In the land of Canaan:
we told him the words of my lord; what he had said to them, particularly respecting Benjamin.
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Judah's Intercession
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