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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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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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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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.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Genesis 44:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 John 3:16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- Exodus 32:32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”
- Romans 5:7-10 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
- Romans 9:3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
- Hebrews 7:22 By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Partly in compassion to our aged father, and partly…
Partly in compassion to our aged father, and partly for thy own advantage; because I can be more serviceable to thee than he, because of my greater strength and experience.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide…
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.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The boy. I am older, and more fit for…
The boy. I am older, and more fit for service. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 33. instead of the lad] This offer on the…
33. instead of the lad] This offer on the part of Judah to remain in Egypt in the bond-service of Joseph, as substitute for Benjamin (LXX ἀντὶ τοῦ παιδίου), forms the noble climax of the generous appeal to Joseph’s feelings. The unconscious irony of the situation is heightened by the fact that Judah is unaware of Joseph’s personality, and yet has succeeded in making his appeal hinge upon the reference (a) to the old age and affectionate feelings of Jacob, and (b) to the loss which he has already sustained in the death of Benjamin’s elder brother.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This does not mean "at this moment," but is…
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This does not mean "at this moment," but is used to draw attention to the important point that follows.
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let your servant
Judah refers to himself as "your servant." This is a formal way of speaking to someone with greater authority. AT: "let me, your servant" or "let me" (See: First, Second, or Third Person)
to my master
Judah refers to Joseph as "my master." AT: "to you, my master" or "to you" (See: First, Second, or Third Person)
let the boy go up
It was going to use the phrase "go up" when speaking about traveling from Egypt to Canaan.
For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me?
Judah uses a question to emphasize the grief he would have if Benjamin did not return home. AT: "I cannot return to my father if the boy is not with me." (See: Rhetorical Question)
I am afraid to see the evil that would come on my father
A person suffering terribly is spoken of as if "evil" were a thing that comes upon a person. AT: "I am afraid to see how much my father would suffer" (See: Metaphor)
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lord
fear
evil
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