²⁵ They prepared their gifts^(A) for Joseph’s arrival at noon,^(B) because they had heard that they were to eat there.

²⁶ When Joseph came home,^(C) they presented to him the gifts^(D) they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.^{(E) 27} He asked them how they were, and then he said, “How is your aged father^(F) you told me about? Is he still living?”^(G)