Genesis 44:32

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’

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KJV

King James Version

For 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.

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WEB

World English Bible

For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Genesis 44

³⁰ So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,

³¹ sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

³² Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’

³³ Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.

³⁴ For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

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