Genesis 44:33
Good News Translation
And now, sir, I will stay here as your slave in place of the boy; let him go back with his brothers.

New Revised Standard Version
Now therefore, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord in place of the boy; and let the boy go back with his brothers.

Contemporary English Version
Sir, I am your slave. Please let me stay here in place of Benjamin and let him return home with his brothers.

New American Bible
So now let me, your servant, remain in place of the boy as the slave of my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore I, thy servant, will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore I, thy servant, will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.

therefore.

I pray thee.

Exodus 32:32 Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.

Romans 5:7-10 For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die. . . .

Romans 9:3 For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:

instead.

Hebrews 7:22 By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

1 John 3:16 In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Context
Judah Pleads for Benjamin
32Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever. 33Therefore I, thy servant, will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.34For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.…
Cross References
Genesis 44:32
Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.

Genesis 44:34
For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.

Genesis 44:32
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