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Genesis 44:33
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Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
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.
So then, please let your servant remain in place of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
"So now, please let your servant remain as my lord's slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.
"Now, therefore, please let your servant (Judah) remain here instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his brothers.
"So now, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Nowe therefore, I pray thee, let me thy seruant bide for the childe, as a seruant to my Lord, and let the childe go vp with his brethren.
So now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Sir, I am your slave. Please let me stay here in place of Benjamin and let him return home with his brothers.
Therefore, I beg you, let your servant stay as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
And now, let thy servant stay, I pray thee, instead of the lad a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren;
So now I beg you, please let the boy go back with his brothers, and I will stay and be your slave.
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.
Now therefore, let your servant stay here instead of the lad as a servant to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.
And now, sir, I will stay here as your slave in place of the boy; let him go back with his brothers.
Now please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers.
And now please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord instead of the youth; and let the youth go up with his brothers.
Therfore let thy seruaunt byde here in steade of ye lad, to be my lordes bonde man, and let the lad go vp with his brethren.
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.
So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.
Nowe therefore I pray thee, let me thy seruaunt byde here for the lad, and be my lordes bondman, and let the lad go vp with his brethren.
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.
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy seruant abide in stead of the lad, a bondman to my lord, and let the lad goe vp with his brethren.
Now then I will remain a servant with thee instead of the lad, a domestic of my lord; but let the lad go up with his brethren.
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.
Now please let your servant stay here as my lord's slave, in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
and so Y schal dwelle thi seruaunt for the child in to the seruyce of my lord, and the child stie with hise britheren;
`And now, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the youth a servant to my lord, and the youth goeth up with his brethren,
Now therefore, let your slave, I pray you, abide instead of the lad a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad, a bond-man to my lord; and let the lad return with his brethren.
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.
"So please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.
So let your servant stay and work for my lord, instead of the boy. Let the boy go home with his brothers.
Now therefore, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord in place of the boy; and let the boy go back with his brothers.
Now, therefore, I pray thee let thy servant remain instead of the lad, as servant to my lord, - but as for the lad, let him go up with his brethren.
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.
Now therefore, let your servant, I pray you, remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go back with his brothers.
"So let me stay here as your slave, not this boy. Let the boy go back with his brothers. How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? Oh, don't make me go back and watch my father die in grief!"
"Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
therefore: What must Benjamin have felt when he heard his brother conclude his speech by a proposal which could never have been thought of if it had not been actually made! Perhaps the annals of the whole world do not produce an instance of so heroic and disinterested affection in any mere man.
I pray thee: Exodus 32:32, Romans 5:7-10, Romans 9:3
instead: Hebrews 7:22, 1 John 3:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 43:9 - will be Genesis 44:10 - he with whom 1 Samuel 25:24 - Upon 2 Samuel 24:17 - let thine 1 Kings 18:7 - my lord Elijah 1 Chronicles 21:17 - let thine Proverbs 6:1 - if thou be
Cross-References
But the brothers said to the servant, "Why do you say these things? We would not do anything like that!
The servant said, "We will do as you say, but only the man who has taken the cup will become my slave. The rest of you may go free."
Now, please forgive them of this sin. If you will not, then erase my name from the book in which you have written the names of your people."
I wish I could help my Jewish brothers and sisters, my people. I would even wish that I were cursed and cut off from Christ if that would help them.
This means that Jesus is the guarantee of a better agreement from God to his people.
This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for our brothers and sisters.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord,.... Being, as Jarchi observes preferable to Benjamin for strength, for war, and for service: in this Judah was a type of Christ, from whose tribe he sprung, who became the surety of God's Benjamins, his children who are beloved by him, and as dear to him as his right hand, and put himself in their legal place and stead, and became sin and a curse for them, that they might go free, as Judah desired his brother Benjamin might, as follows:
and let the lad go up with his brethren; from Egypt to Canaan's land, to their father there.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- The Ten Brothers Were Tested
Joseph has had the satisfaction of seeing his brother Benjamin safe and well. He has heard his brothers acknowledging their guilt concerning himself. He resolves to put their attachment to Benjamin, and the genuineness of their change of disposition, to a test that will at the same time expose Benjamin to no hazard.
Genesis 44:1-5
And my cup. - Besides returning each manâs money as before, a silver cup of Josephâs is put in Benjaminâs bag, after which, when daylight comes, they are dismissed. They are scarcely out of the town when Josephâs steward is ordered to overtake them, and charge them with stealing the cup. âAnd whereby indeed he divineth.â Divining by cups, we learn from this, was a common custom in Egypt (Herodotus ii. 83). It is here mentioned to enhance the value of the cup. Whether Joseph really practised any sort of divination cannot be determined from this passage.
Genesis 44:6-12
The cup is found in Benjaminâs bag. âSpake unto them these words.â The words of Joseph, supplying of course the mention of the cup which is expressed in the text only by the pronoun this. âWe brought back to thee.â Silver that we might have retained, and to which you made no claim when we tendered it, we brought back. How or why should we therefore, steal silver? âNow also according to your words let it be.â He adopts their terms with a mitigation. He with whom the cup is found shall become a slave for life, and the rest be acquitted. The steward searches from the oldest to the youngest. The cup is found where it was put.
Genesis 44:13-17
âThey rent their garments;â the natural token of a sorrow that knows no remedy. âAnd Judah went.â He had pledged himself for the safety of Benjamin to his father. And he was yet there; awaiting no doubt the result which he anticipated. âThey fell before him on the earth.â It is no longer a bending of the head or bowing of the body, but the posture of deepest humiliation. How deeply that early dream penetrated into the stern reality! âWot ye not that such a man as I doth certainly divine?â Joseph keeps up the show of resentment for a little longer, and brings out from Judah the most pathetic plea of its kind that ever was uttered. âThe God,â the great and only God, âhath found out the iniquity of thy servants;â in our dark and treacherous dealing with our brother. âBehold, we are servants to my lord.â He resigns himself and all to perpetual bondage, as the doom of a just God upon their still-remembered crime. âHe shall be my servant; and ye, go up in peace to your father.â Now is the test applied with the nicest adjustment. Now is the moment of agony and suspense to Joseph. Will my brothers prove true? says he within himself. Will Judah prove adequate to the occasion? say we. His pleading with his father augured well.
Verse 18-34
âAnd Judah came near unto him.â He is going to surrender himself as a slave for life, that Benjamin may go home with his brothers, who are permitted to depart. âLet thy servant now speak a word in the ears of my lord.â There is nothing here but respectful calmness of demeanor. âAnd let not thine anger burn against thy servant.â He intuitively feels that the grand vizier is a man of like feelings with himself. He will surmount the distinction of rank, and stand with him on the ground of a common humanity. âFor so art thou as Pharaoh.â Thou hast power to grant or withhold my request. This forms, the exordium of the speech. Then follows the plea. This consists in a simple statement of the facts, which Judah expects to have its native effect upon a rightly-constituted heart. We will not touch this statement, except to explain two or three expressions. A young lad - a comparative youth. âLet me set mine eyes upon himâ - regard him with favor and kindness. âHe shall leave his father and he shall die.â If he were to leave his father, his father would die. Such is the natural interpretation of these words, as the paternal affection is generally stronger than the filial. âAnd now let thy servant now abide instead of the lad a servant to my lord.â Such is the humble and earnest petition of Judah. He calmly and firmly sacrifices home, family, and birthright, rather than see an aged father die of a broken heart.
