Genesis 44:33

Now therefore let me, I beg of you, remain instead of the boy as your slave, my lord, but let the boy 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

32Indeed, my lord, I personally became surety for the boy to my father, when I said, ‘If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame in my father’s eyes forever.’

34For how can I go up to my father, if the boy is not with me, and see the pain and sorrow that would come upon my father.”

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Cross References

Romans 5:7Even for an upright person scarcely anyone will die. For a really good person perhaps someone might even dare to die.

Hebrews 7:22And the oath shows the corresponding superiority of the covenant of which Jesus is appointed the surety.

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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