Genesis 44:33

Therefore I thy servant will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

32Let me be tht proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.

34For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:32Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.

Romans 5:7For scarce for a just man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.

Hebrews 7:22By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

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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