Genesis 44:32-34

Expanded Bible

³² “·I gave my father a guarantee that the young boy would be safe [^LFor your servant provided surety for the young boy for his father]. I said to my father, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, ·you can blame me [^LI will be condemned before my father] all my life.’ ³³ So now, please allow ·me [^Lyour servant] to stay here and be your ·slave [^Lservant in place of the young boy], and let the young boy go back home with his brothers. ³⁴ I cannot go back to my father if the boy is not with me. I couldn’t stand to see my father ·that sad [suffer].”