Genesis 44:33
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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.

Lexicon
Now
וְעַתָּ֗ה (wə·‘at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 6258: At this time

please
נָ֤א (nā)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

let your servant
עַבְדְּךָ֙ (‘aḇ·də·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5650: Slave, servant

stay here
יֵֽשֶׁב־ (yê·šeḇ-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

as my lord’s
לַֽאדֹנִ֑י (la·ḏō·nî)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 113: Sovereign, controller

slave,
עֶ֖בֶד (‘e·ḇeḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5650: Slave, servant

in place of
תַּ֣חַת (ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

the boy.
הַנַּ֔עַר (han·na·‘ar)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5288: A boy, lad, youth, retainer

Let him return
יַ֥עַל (ya·‘al)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively

with
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5973: With, equally with

his brothers.
אֶחָֽיו׃ (’e·ḥāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 251: A brother, )


Additional Translations
Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave, in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant abide instead of the lad a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.

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.

Now then I will remain a servant with thee instead of the lad, a domestic of my lord; but let the lad go up with his brethren.

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;

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.

Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad, a bond-man to my lord; and let the lad return with his brethren.

Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

'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,
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