³² For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ^(A)‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’

¹⁶ When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ^(A)steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon.”

⁸ And Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may ^(A)live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones. ⁹ I will be a pledge of his safety. From my hand you shall require him. ^(B)If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.