Genesis 44:33

So please let me stay here as my lord's slave instead of the boy. Let him go back home 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

32In fact I gave myself as the guarantee for the boy to my father. I told him, ‘If I don't bring him back to you, then I will always carry the blame!’

34For how could I ever go back to my father if the boy wasn't with me? I couldn't stand seeing the anguish that would cause my father.”

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Cross References

Exodus 32:32But now, if you will, forgive their sin. Otherwise just blot me out of the scroll in which you keep your records.”

Romans 5:7Who would die for anybody else, even someone who does what's right? (Though perhaps somebody would be brave enough to die for someone really good.)

Hebrews 7:22This is how Jesus became the guarantee of an agreed relationship with God that is so much better.

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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