Genesis 44:32-34

44:32 Indeed, ¹  your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

44:33 “So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers. 44:34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see ²  my father’s pain.” ³ 

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¹ tn Or “for.”

² tn The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose – “I cannot go up lest I see.”

³ tn Heb “the calamity which would find my father.”