Verse 32

Genesis 44:32

GOD'S WORD Translation

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32 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.’

Original Language Text

hebrew

כִּ֤י עַבְדְּ/ךָ֙ עָרַ֣ב אֶת הַ/נַּ֔עַר מֵ/עִ֥ם אָבִ֖/י לֵ/אמֹ֑ר אִם לֹ֤א אֲבִיאֶ֨/נּוּ֙ אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ וְ/חָטָ֥אתִי לְ/אָבִ֖/י כָּל הַ/יָּמִֽים

English Translation

For your servant has guaranteed the boy to my father, saying, "If I do not bring him to you, I will bear the sin to my father all the days."

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Chapter 44 Context

1 He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can... Focus ↗

2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did accor... Focus ↗

3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. Focus ↗

4 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follo... Focus ↗

5 Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so... Focus ↗

6 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them. Focus ↗

7 They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that the... Focus ↗

8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of C... Focus ↗

9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.” Focus ↗

10 He said, “Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my slave; and... Focus ↗

11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack. Focus ↗

12 He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s... Focus ↗

13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city. Focus ↗

14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground befor... Focus ↗

15 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can... Focus ↗

16 Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God (Elo... Focus ↗

17 He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be... Focus ↗

18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord... Focus ↗

19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ Focus ↗

20 We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his... Focus ↗

21 You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ Focus ↗

22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father w... Focus ↗

23 You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face n... Focus ↗

24 When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. Focus ↗

25 Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’ Focus ↗

26 We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not... Focus ↗

27 Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons: Focus ↗

28 and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces”; and I haven’t seen him sinc... Focus ↗

29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with s... Focus ↗

30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is b... Focus ↗

31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring dow... Focus ↗

32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, t...

33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go... Focus ↗

34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on m... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Genesis
Chapter: Chapter 44 (34 verses)
Version: GOD'S WORD Translation

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