Genesis 44:33

New American Bible - revised edition

So now let me, your servant, remain in place of the boy as the slave of my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

Cross References

Genesis 44:10

But he replied, “Now what you propose is fair enough, but only the one who is found to have it shall become my slave, and the rest of you can go free.”

Genesis 44:32

Besides, I, your servant, have guaranteed the boy’s safety for my father by saying, ‘If I fail to bring him back to you, father, I will bear the blame before you forever.’

Genesis 44:34

How could I go back to my father if the boy were not with me? I could not bear to see the anguish that would overcome my father.”

2 Samuel 24:17

When David saw the angel who was striking the people, he said to the Lord: “It is I who have sinned; it is I, the shepherd, who have done wrong. But these sheep, what have they done? Strike me and my father’s family!” David Offers Sacrifices.

Exodus 32:32

Now if you would only forgive their sin! But if you will not, then blot me out of the book that you have written.”

Romans 9:3

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

Hebrews 7:22

to that same degree has Jesus [also] become the guarantee of an [even] better covenant.

1 John 3:16

The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.