Genesis 44:33

33 “Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

Genesis 44:33 in Other Translations

33 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.

33 Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

33 “So please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

33 "So let me stay here as your slave, not this boy. Let the boy go back with his brothers.

33 Now please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers.

Genesis 44:33 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 44:33

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.

Genesis 44:33 In-Context

31 sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.

32 Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!’

33 “Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

34 How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”

Cross References

• 1. S ver 10; S Genesis 43:18
• 2. John 15:13