Study it in the app“For your servant became surety for the young man to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him to you, then I will have sinned against my father for all time.’”
Forכִּיyour servantעַבְדְּךָbecame suretyעָרַבfor the young manאֶת הַנַּעַרto my father,מֵעִם אָבִיsaying,לֵאמֹר‘IfאִםI do notלֹאbring himאֲבִיאֶנּוּto you,אֵלֶיךָthen I will have sinnedוְחָטָאתִיagainst my fatherלְאָבִיfor all time.’כָּל הַיָּמִים
your servant
"Your servant": a humble way to say "I".
Where else “avd” appearsbe surety
To guarantee another's debt.
Where else “arav” appearsboy
A child or a young man who is still growing and does not rule a household.
Where else “naar” appearsfather
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearsbring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “avie” appearssin
To do wrong, fail God or another.
Where else “chatati” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yamim” appears31when he sees that the young man is not there, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to Sheol.
32 · This verse (above)
33Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the young man as a slave to my lord, and let the young man go up with his brothers.
1. What it says
What did Judah propose when the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack (vv. 33-34)?
2. What it means
What does it show that Judah offers himself as a slave in place of Benjamin (v. 33)?
3. How I live it
What small sacrifice can you make today for someone in your family?
