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Genesis 44:32

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For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

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  1. Genesis 44:30

    Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

  2. Genesis 44:31

    It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

  3. Genesis 44:33

    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.

  4. Genesis 44:34

    For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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