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Genesis 44:33

Love for othersServing othersFaithfulness and loyaltyParents and children

31 sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

32 Indeed, 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.’

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

34 For 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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BSB
Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
KJV
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.
WEB
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
ASV
Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
DARBY
And now, let thy servant stay, I pray thee, instead of the lad a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren;
BLB
And now, please, let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
ÅB
La derfor din tjener bli i guttens sted som slave hos min herre, men la gutten dra hjem med sine brødre!
OTB
Nå, vær så snill, la din tjener bli som min herres slave i stedet for gutten, og la gutten vende tilbake med sine brødre.
B1930
La derfor din tjener bli i guttens sted som træl hos min herre, men la gutten dra hjem med sine brødre!

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