Genesis 44:31-33

Expanded Bible

³¹ when our father sees the young boy is not with us, he will die. ·And it will be our fault. We will cause the great sorrow that kills our father [^LYour servants will have brought the gray head of your servant to Sheol in grief].

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.