Genesis 44:33 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King 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.

Genesis 44:33 Cross References

Genesis 44:10

He said, “Even so; in accordance with your words, let it be: he with whom it is found shall become my slave, but the rest of you shall go free.”

Genesis 44:32

For your servant became surety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.’

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the suffering that would come upon my father.”

2 Samuel 24:17

When David saw the angel who was destroying the people, he said to the Lord, “I alone have sinned, and I, the shepherd, have done evil, but these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”

Exodus 32:32

But now, if you will only forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of the book that you have written.”

Romans 9:3

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

Hebrews 7:22

accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantor of a better covenant.

1 John 3:16

We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.