And he said, “Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found becomes my slave, and you are innocent.”
Genesis 44:33 - The Scriptures 2009 “And now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave to my master, and let the boy go up with his brothers. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant remain instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his [half] brothers. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Now, please let your servant stay as your slave instead of the young man so that he can go back with his brothers. Catholic Public Domain Version And so I, your servant, will remain in place of the boy, in ministry to my lord, and then let the boy go up with his brothers. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
And he said, “Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found becomes my slave, and you are innocent.”
For your servant went guaranty for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall be a sinner before my father forever.’ ”
“For how do I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would come upon my father?”
And Dawiḏ spoke to יהוה when he saw the messenger who was striking the people, and said, “See, I have sinned, and I have done perversely. But these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”
And now, if You would forgive their sin, but if not, please blot me out of Your book which You have written.
For I myself could have wished to be banished from Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh,
By as much as this יהושע has become a guarantor of a better covenant.
By this we have known love, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.