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.
And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
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.
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.
And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
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.