Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told him all that my lord had said.

'And it cometh to pass, that we have come up unto thy servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;

And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.

Therefore, when we had gone up to your servant our father, we explained to him all that my lord had spoken.

Fuit igitur, quando ascendimus ad servum tuum patrem meum, et narravimus ei verba domini mei.

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.