And now please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord instead of the youth; and let the youth go up with his brothers.
And he said, Now also let it be according to your words; with whomever it is found with him, he shall become a slave to me, and you shall be innocent.
For your servant was surety for the youth with my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, I shall be a sinner against my father all the days.
For how can I go to my father, and the youth not be with me, lest I look on the evil which will find my father?
And when he saw the angel who was striking among the people, David spoke to Jehovah and said, Behold, I have sinned. Yea, I have acted perversely. And these, the flock, what have they done? Now let your hand be on me, and on my father’s house.
And now, if You will, lift up their sin. And if not, I pray, blot me out from Your book which You have written.
for I myself was wishing to be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,
by so much Jesus has become Surety of a better covenant.
By this we have known the love of God, because that One laid down His life for us; and on behalf of the brothers we ought to lay down our lives.