“And now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave to my master, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
And he said, “Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found becomes my slave, and you are innocent.”
“For your servant went guaranty for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall be a sinner before my father forever.’
“For how do I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would come upon my father?”
And Dawiḏ
“And now, if You would forgive their sin, but if not, please blot me out of Your book which You have written.”
For I myself could have wished to be banished from Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh,
By as much as this יהושע has become a guarantor of a better covenant.
By this we have known love, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.