Genesis 44:33
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New International Version (©2011)
"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.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"So please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Now please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Therefore, please allow your servant to remain as a slave to Your Excellency, instead of the young man, and let the young man go back home with his brothers.

NET Bible (©2006)
"So now, please let your servant remain as my lord's slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Sir, please let me stay and be your slave in the boy's place, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant abide instead of the lad a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.

American King James Version
Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant abide instead of the lad a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Darby Bible Translation
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;

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad, a bond-man to my lord; and let the lad return with his brethren.

World English Bible
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

Young's Literal Translation
'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,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

44:18-34 Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them. Judah's faithful cleaving to Benjamin, now, in his distress, was recompensed long afterwards by the tribe of Benjamin keeping with the tribe of Judah, when the other tribes deserted it. The apostle, when discoursing of the mediation of Christ, observes, that our Lord sprang out of Judah, Heb 7:14; and he not only made intercession for the transgressors, but he became a Surety for them, testifying therein tender concern, both for his Father and for his brethren. Jesus, the great antitype of Joseph, humbles and proves his people, even after they have had some tastes of his loving-kindness. He brings their sins to their remembrance, that they may exercise and show repentance, and feel how much they owe to his mercy.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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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Judah Pleads for Benjamin
…32For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 33Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant abide instead of the lad a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers. 34For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

Genesis 44:32 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!'
Genesis 44:34 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."