33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let me thy servant abide for the child, as a servant to my lord, and let the child go up with his brethren.

34 For [a]how can I go up to my father: if the child be not with me, unless I would see the evil that shall come on my father.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 44:34 Meaning, he had rather remain their prisoner, than to return and see his father in heaviness.

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