Kejadian 44:32

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi hambamu ini telah menanggung anak itu terhadap ayahku dengan perkataan: Jika aku tidak membawanya kembali kepada bapa, maka akulah yang berdosa kepada bapa untuk selama-lamanya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi hambamu ini telah menanggung anak itu terhadap ayahku dengan perkataan: Jika aku tidak membawanya kembali kepada bapa, maka akulah yang berdosa kepada bapa untuk selama-lamanya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tambahan pula patik sudah mengaku akan budak ini di hadapan bapa patik, serta kata patik: Jikalau tiada sahaya kembalikan dia pula kepada bapa, niscaya sahaya akan menanggung dosa selama-lamanya akan bapa sahaya adanya.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Then Iuda went vnto him, and said: Oh my lorde, let thy seruaunt [I pray thee] speake a worde in my lordes eares, and be not inflamed with wrath agaynst thy seruaunt, for thou art euen as Pharao. ¹⁹ My lorde asked his seruauntes, saying: haue ye a father, or a brother? ²⁰ And we aunswered my lorde: we haue a father that is olde, and a young lad, which he begat in his age: and the brother of the sayd lad is dead, and he is all that is left of his mother, and his father loueth him. ²¹ And thou saidest vnto thy seruauntes: bryng him vnto me, that I may set my eyes vpon him. ²² And we aunswered my Lorde, that the lad could not go from his father, for if he shoulde leaue his father, he were but dead. ²³ Then saydest thou vnto thy seruauntes: except your youngest brother come with you, loke that ye see my face no more. ²⁴ And when we came vnto thy seruaunt our father, we shewed hym the wordes of my Lorde. ²⁵ And our father sayde vnto vs: go agayne, and bye vs a litle foode. ²⁶ And we aunswered, we can not go downe: neuerthelesse, if our youngest brother be with vs, then wyll we go downe, for we may not see the mans face, except our youngest brother be with vs. ²⁷ And thy seruaunt our father sayd vnto vs: ye knowe that my wyfe bare me two sonnes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 43:8, Genesis 43:9, Genesis 43:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:37 - Slay my Genesis 44:16 - Judah Job 17:3 - put me Proverbs 6:1 - if thou be Hebrews 7:22 - a surety

Cross-References

Genesis 43:16
When Ioseph sawe Beniamin with them, he sayd to the ruler of his house: bryng these men home, and slay, and make redy, for these men shall dyne with me at noone.

Genesis 44:8
Beholde the money which we founde in our sackes mouthes, we brought agayne vnto thee, out of the land of Chanaan: howe then shoulde we steale out of thy Lordes house eyther siluer or golde?

Genesis 44:9
With whomsoeuer of thy seruauntes it be founde, let him dye, and we also wyll be my Lordes bondmen.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father,.... Which is another argument used for the release of Benjamin, though he should be detained for him, which he offers to be:

saying, if I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame unto my father for ever; :-.

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 man’s money as before, a silver cup of Joseph’s is put in Benjamin’s bag, after which, when daylight comes, they are dismissed. They are scarcely out of the town when Joseph’s steward is ordered to overtake them, and charge them with stealing the cup. “And whereby indeed he divineth.” 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 Benjamin’s bag. “Spake unto them these words.” The words of Joseph, supplying of course the mention of the cup which is expressed in the text only by the pronoun this. “We brought back to thee.” 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? “Now also according to your words let it be.” 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

“They rent their garments;” the natural token of a sorrow that knows no remedy. “And Judah went.” 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. “They fell before him on the earth.” 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! “Wot ye not that such a man as I doth certainly divine?” 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. “The God,” the great and only God, “hath found out the iniquity of thy servants;” in our dark and treacherous dealing with our brother. “Behold, we are servants to my lord.” He resigns himself and all to perpetual bondage, as the doom of a just God upon their still-remembered crime. “He shall be my servant; and ye, go up in peace to your father.” 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

“And Judah came near unto him.” He is going to surrender himself as a slave for life, that Benjamin may go home with his brothers, who are permitted to depart. “Let thy servant now speak a word in the ears of my lord.” There is nothing here but respectful calmness of demeanor. “And let not thine anger burn against thy servant.” 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. “For so art thou as Pharaoh.” 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. “Let me set mine eyes upon him” - regard him with favor and kindness. “He shall leave his father and he shall die.” 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. “And now let thy servant now abide instead of the lad a servant to my lord.” 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.