Genesis 44:33

Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide a bondman to my lord instead of the lad, and let the lad go up with his brothers.

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In The King James Version

Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

In Context

32For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.

34For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? Lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:32Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin--, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou have written.

Romans 5:7For scarcely for a righteous man will some man die, indeed perhaps for the good man some man would even dare to die.

Hebrews 7:22By so much, Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 44:19-34

Judah's Appeal on Behalf of Benjamin. ( b. c. 1707.) 18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21 And… Read the whole commentary →

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