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¹ And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.² And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his grain money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.³ As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.⁴ [And] when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, Get up, follow after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you rewarded evil for good?⁵ Isn't this that in which my lord drinks, and whereby he indeed uses it for magic? you have done evil in so doing.⁶ And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these words.⁷ And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your slaves that they should do such a thing.⁸ Look, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of your lord's house silver or gold?⁹ With whoever of your slaves it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves.¹⁰ And he said, Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found shall be my slave; and you shall be innocent.¹¹ Then they hurried, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.¹² And he searched, [and] began at the eldest, and left off at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.¹³ Then they rent their clothes, and loaded every man his donkey, and returned to the city.¹⁴ And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; and he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.¹⁵ And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that you have done? don't you know that a man such as I can indeed use magic [to find out]?¹⁶ And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your slaves: look, we are my lord's slaves, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.¹⁷ And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my slave but as for you, you get up in peace to your father.

¹⁸ Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh, my lord, let your slave, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your slave; for you are even as Pharaoh.¹⁹ My lord asked his slaves, saying, Have you a father, or a brother?²⁰ And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.²¹ And you said to your slaves, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.²² And we said to my lord, The lad can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.²³ And you said to your slaves, Except your youngest brother come down with you, you shall see my face no more.²⁴ And it came to pass when we came up to your slave my father, we told him the words of my lord.²⁵ And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.²⁶ And we said, We can't go down: if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother is with us.²⁷ And your slave my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons:²⁸ and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I haven't seen him since:²⁹ and if you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.³⁰ Now therefore when I come to your slave my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;³¹ it will come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not there, that he will die: and your slaves will bring down the gray hairs of your slave our father with sorrow to Sheol.³² For your slave became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I don't bring him to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.³³ Now therefore, let your slave, I pray you, abide instead of the lad a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad is not with me? Or else, I will see the evil that shall come on my father.