Genesis 44:33

English Standard Version 2016

Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

Cross References

1 John 3:16

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

Hebrews 7:22

This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

Exodus 32:32

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

Genesis 44:32

For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before 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 evil that would find my father.”

Genesis 44:10

He said, “Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent.”

2 Samuel 24:17

Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”