Genesis 44:33

Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return 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

32Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’

34For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

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Cross References

Exodus 32:32Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

Romans 5:7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

Hebrews 7:22Because of this oath, Jesus has become the 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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