Genesis 44:33 “Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of t…”

Genesis 44:33

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Nowe therefore, I pray thee, let me thy seruant bide for the childe, as a seruant to my Lord, and let the childe go vp with his brethren.

Darby Translation

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;

Young's Literal Translation

'And now, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the youth a servant to my lord, and the youth goeth up with his brethren,

Bible in Basic English

So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

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Cross references

“I pray thee”

Exodus 32:32 Romans 5:7–10 Romans 9:3

Exodus 32:32 · BSB

Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

Romans 5:7–10 · BSB

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

Romans 9:3 · BSB

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

“instead”

1 John 3:16 Hebrews 7:22

1 John 3:16 · BSB

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Hebrews 7:22 · BSB

Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

32Indeed, 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.’

34For 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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