Genesis 44:33
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.
Genesis 44:33 in other translations
| BSB | Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | ‘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, |
| 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; |
| BBE | So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Genesis 44:33 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 44:16-34
16-34. Judah said, What shall we say?--This address needs no comment--consisting at first of short, broken sentences, as if, under the overwhelming force of the speaker's emotions, his utterance were choked, it becomes more free and copious by the effort of speaking, as he proceeds. Every word finds its way to the heart; and it may well be imagined that Benjamin, who stood there speechless like a victim about to be…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 44:18-34
Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them. Judah's faithful cleaving to Benjamin, now, in his distress, was recompensed long afterwards by the tribe of Benjamin keeping with the tribe of Judah, when the other tribes deserted it. The…
Genesis 44:33 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 44:33
- 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.
- Romans 5:7-10
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
- Hebrews 7:22
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
- Exodus 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.
- Romans 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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I pray thee.
Ex 32:32; Ro 5:7-10; 9:3
instead.
Heb 7:22; 1Jo 3:16
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Context
- Genesis 44:32
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.
- Genesis 44:33
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.
- Genesis 44:34
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.
Genesis 44:33 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Ruégote por tanto que quede ahora tu siervo por el mozo por siervo de mi señor, y que el mozo vaya con sus hermanos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et maintenant, que ton serviteur, je te prie, reste serviteur de mon seigneur, à la place du jeune homme, et le jeune homme montera avec ses frères; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und nun, laß doch deinen Knecht anstatt des Knaben bleiben, als Knecht meines Herrn, und der Knabe ziehe hinauf mit seinen Brüdern; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Manebo itaque servus tuus pro puero in ministerio domini mei, et puer ascendat cum fratribus suis. |