Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide a bondman to my lord instead of the lad, and let the lad go up with his brothers.
New American Standard Bible
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 Version
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 Bible
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
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.
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.
Amplified
Now, therefore, please let your servant (Judah) remain here instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his brothers.
Bible in Basic English
So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.
Darby 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;
Julia Smith Translation
At this time thy servant shall now remain for the youth, a servant to my lord; and the youth shall go up with his brethren.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So then, please let your servant remain in place of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Modern King James verseion
And now please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave to my lord. And let the boy go up with his brothers.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Now therefore let me thy servant bide here for the lad, and be my lord's bondman: and let the lad go home with his brethren.
NET Bible
"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.
New Heart 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.
The Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, I pray thee let thy servant remain instead of the lad, as servant to my lord, - but as for the lad, let him go up with his brethren.
Webster
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.
Youngs 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,
Themes
Children » Instances of » Judah
Judah » Son of jacob » Goes down into egypt for corn (grain)
Interlinear
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Na`ar
Na`ar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 44:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph Tests His Brothers
32 For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever. 33 Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide a bondman to my lord instead of the lad, and let the lad go up with his brothers. 34 For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? Lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.
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Cross References
Exodus 32:32
Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin--, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou have written.
Romans 5:7-10
For scarcely for a righteous man will some man die, indeed perhaps for the good man some man would even dare to die.
Romans 9:3
For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,
Hebrews 7:22
By so much, Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant.
1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.