Genesis 43:9
Good News Translation
I will pledge my own life, and you can hold me responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you safe and sound, I will always bear the blame.

New Revised Standard Version
I myself will be surety for him; you can hold me accountable for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.

Contemporary English Version
I promise to bring him back safely, and if I don't, you can blame me as long as I live.

New American Bible
I myself will serve as a guarantee for him. You can hold me responsible for him. If I fail to bring him back and set him before you, I will bear the blame before you forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.

will be.

Genesis 42:37 And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons, if I bring him not again to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will restore him to thee.

Genesis 44:32,33 Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever. . . .

1 Kings 1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth with his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted offenders.

Job 17:3 Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.

Psalm 119:122 Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.

Philemon 1:18 And if he hath wronged thee in any thing or is in thy debt, put that to my account.

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Hebrews 7:22 By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

of my hand.

Genesis 9:5 For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.

Genesis 31:39 Neither did I shew thee that which the beast had torn; I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it of me:

Ezekiel 3:18,20 If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. . . .

Ezekiel 33:6,8 And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not the trumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and the sword come, and cut off a soul from among them: he indeed is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the hand of the watchman. . . .

Luke 11:50 That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

Context
The Return to Egypt with Benjamin
8And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish. 9I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.10If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second time.…
Cross References
Philemon 1:18
And if he hath wronged thee in any thing or is in thy debt, put that to my account.

Philemon 1:19
I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee that thou owest me thy own self also.

Genesis 42:37
And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons, if I bring him not again to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will restore him to thee.

Genesis 43:10
If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second time.

Genesis 44:32
Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.

2 Samuel 14:9
And the woman of Thecua said to the king: Upon me, my lord be the iniquity, and upon the house of my father: but may the king and his throne be guiltless.

Genesis 43:8
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