Genesis 44:32

For your servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto you, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

— The Restored Word Bible

Context

30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the lad not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad not , that he will die: and your servants shall bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

32 For your servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto you, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

33 Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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