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Genesis 44:33
Genesis 44:33 is verse 33 of Genesis chapter 44, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
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Genesis 44:31–34 · Berean Standard Bible
31 sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
32 Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
33 Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
34 For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 32:32Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
Romans 5:7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
Romans 5:8But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:9Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
Romans 9:3For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
Hebrews 7:22Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
1 John 3:16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.