Genesis 44:33

Plain English Version

So please, sir, let me stay here and become your work-man, instead of that young man. And let that young man go back home with his brothers.

Cross References

Genesis 44:10

Joseph’s worker said, “All right, I will look in all your bags. And the man that has my cup in his bag, he has to become my work-man. Then I will let the rest of you mob go free.”

Genesis 44:32

Sir, I promised my father that I will look after that young man, and keep him safe. I said to my father, ‘If I don’t bring that young man back here to you, then you can blame me and say that I am guilty, and you can do that all my life.’

Genesis 44:34

If that young man is not with me, I can’t go back to my father. I don’t want to see my father get real sad and die. No way.”