Genesis 44:33

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.
  • Exod 32:32 : 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
  • Rom 5:7-9 : 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
  • Rom 9:3 : 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
  • Heb 7:22 : 22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

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    29And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

    30Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad [be] not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

    31It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad [is] not [with us], that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

    32For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

  • Gen 44:34
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    34For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

  • Gen 44:17-27
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    17And he said, God forbid that I should do so: [but] the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

    18¶ Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou [art] even as Pharaoh.

    19My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

    20And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

    21And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

    22And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for [if] he should leave his father, [his father] would die.

    23And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

    24And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

    25And our father said, Go again, [and] buy us a little food.

    26And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother [be] with us.

    27And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two [sons]:

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    33And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye [are] true [men]; leave one of your brethren [here] with me, and take [food for] the famine of your households, and be gone:

    34And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye [are] no spies, but [that] ye [are] true [men: so] will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.

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    8And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, [and] also our little ones.

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    7And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:

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    9With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.

    10And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.

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    13Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:

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    13And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children [are] tender, and the flocks and herds with young [are] with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

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    38And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

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    23And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, [even] thy firstborn.

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    3And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you.

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