He said, “Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent.”
Genesis 44:33 - English Standard Version 2016 Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant remain instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his [half] brothers. American Standard Version (1901) Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. Common English Bible Now, please let your servant stay as your slave instead of the young man so that he can go back with his brothers. Catholic Public Domain Version And so I, your servant, will remain in place of the boy, in ministry to my lord, and then let the boy go up with his brothers. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore I thy servant will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren. |
He said, “Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent.”
For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’
For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”
Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”
But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.