Genesis 44:33 — Compare Translations

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Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant remain instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his [half] brothers.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant remain instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his [half] brothers.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Now please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And now, let thy servant stay, I pray thee, instead of the lad a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren;

English EASY 2024

Please sir, let me stay here as your slave, instead of the boy. Let the boy return home with his brothers.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

So now I beg you, please let the boy go back with his brothers, and I will stay and be your slave.

Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

And now, sir, I will stay here as your slave in place of the boy; let him go back with his brothers.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Now please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers.

English KJV 1611

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.

English LSB

So now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

“Now therefore, please let your servant stay as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Let me, your servant, therefore, remain in place of the boy as the slave of my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

“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.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

"Now then, please let me stay here. Let me be your slave in place of the boy. Let the boy return with his brothers.

English NIV

"Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

English NKJ 1982

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.

English NLT

Please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Now therefore, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord in place of the boy; and let the boy go back with his brothers.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

“So, please let me take the place of the boy, and I will remain here as a slave to you, my lord. Please let the boy go back with his brothers. How could I return to my father without the boy? I don’t want to witness the woe and grief that would overtake my father.”

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Now therefore, let your servant, I pray you, remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go back with his brothers.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Please sir, let me stay here as a slave instead of the lad, and let the lad return with his brothers.

English Tyndale 1537

Now therefore let me thy servant bide here for the lad, and be my lord's bondman: and let the lad go home with his brethren.