Genesis 44:33

And now let thy servant remain instead of the youth, as the servant of my lord, and let the youth go up with his brothers.

Targum Onkelos

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 thy servant was surety for the youth with our father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, let my father hold me guilty all the days.

34For how can I go up to my father, and the youth be not with me? Lest I should see the evil that will come upon my father!

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Cross References

Exodus 32:32But now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin! But if not, blot me now out of the Book, which Thou hast written.

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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