Genesis 44:33

Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy as slave to my master, and let the boy go up with his brothers.

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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 became a guarantee for the boy to my father and said, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the guilt to my father forever.'

34For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I am afraid to see the evil that would come on my father.”

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Cross References

Exodus 32:32But now, please forgive their sin; but if you do not, blot me out of the book that you have written.”

Romans 5:7For one will hardly die for a righteous man. That is, perhaps someone would dare to die for a good person.

Hebrews 7:22By this also Jesus has given 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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