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Genesis 44:32

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32 "For your servant 1became surety for the lad to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then let me bear the blame before my father forever *.'
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Genesis 44:32 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 44:32

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; (See Gill on Genesis 43:9).

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 44:32 In-Context

30 "Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life,
31 when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
32 "For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then let me bear the blame before my father forever .'
33 "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.
34 "For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me-for fear that I see the evil that would overtake my father?"

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  • [a]. Lit "and I shall have sinned for all the days before my father"
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