Genesis 44:33
31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
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.
34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 John 3:16
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Read in contextRomans 5:7–10
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Read in contextHebrews 7:22
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Read in contextExodus 32:32
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Read in contextRomans 9:3
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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