Genesis 44:33

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Genesis 44:33 "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. (NASB ©1995)

Genesis 44:32 "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.'

Genesis 44:34 "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?" (NASB ©1995)

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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.

therefore. What must Benjamin have felt when he heard his brother conclude his speech by a proposal which could never have been thought of if it had not been actually made! Perhaps the annals of the whole world do not produce an instance of so heroic and disinterested affection in any mere man.

I pray thee. Ex 32:32 Ro 5:7-10 9:3

instead. Heb 7:22 1Jo 3:16

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