Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Parallel translations
- KJV 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.
- BSB Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
- NKJV Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.
- NASB So now, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
- NLT “So please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.
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Cross-references · 5
- 1 Jn 3:16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- Exod 32:32Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin — and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”
- Heb 7:22By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.
- Rom 9:3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
- Rom 5:7–10For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
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