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Judah Pleads for Benjamin

Genesis 44:33

In 11 translations

BSB
Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
KJV
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.
WEB
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
ASV
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.
LSV
And now, please let your servant abide instead of the youth [as] a servant to my lord, and the youth goes up with his brothers,
YLT
'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,
DBY
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;
DRC
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.
GNV
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.
JPS
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.
LXXE
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.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְעַתָּ֗ה יֵֽשֶׁב־נָ֤א עַבְדְּךָ֙ תַּ֣חַת הַנַּ֔עַר עֶ֖בֶד לַֽאדֹנִ֑י וְהַנַּ֖עַר יַ֥עַל עִם־אֶחָֽיו׃
LXX-Br
Νῦν οὖν παραμενῶ σοι παῖς ἀντὶ τοῦ παιδίου, οἰκέτης τοῦ κυρίου· τὸ δὲ παιδίον ἀναβήτω μετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ.

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◆ Joseph's brothers return to Egypt

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.
  • 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,
  • 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 5:7–10Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Therefore, since we…
  • Hebrews 7:22Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

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