Genesis 44:32-34

International Standard Version

³² Also, your servant pledged his own life as^[a] a guarantee of the young man’s safety. I told my father, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, you can blame me forever.’ ³³ Therefore, please allow your servant to remain as a slave to Your Excellency, instead of the young man, and let the young man go back home with his brothers. ³⁴ After all, how can I go back to my father if the young man doesn’t accompany me? I’m afraid of what might happen to my father.”