Genesis 44:33

And now, please let your servant abide instead of the youth [as] a servant to my lord, and the youth goes up with his brothers,

Literal Standard Version

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 your servant obtained the youth by guarantee to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you—then I have sinned against my father all the days.

34for how do I go up to my father, and the youth not with me? Lest I look on the evil which finds my father.”

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Cross References

Exodus 32:32and now, if You take away their sin—and if not—please blot me out of Your scroll which You have written.”

Romans 5:7for scarcely for a righteous man will anyone die, for the good man perhaps someone also dares to die;

Hebrews 7:22by so much also has Jesus become guarantee 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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