Verse 11
Genesis 44:11
New Living Translation
11
They all quickly took their sacks from the backs of their donkeys and opened them.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַֽ/יְמַהֲר֗וּ וַ/יּוֹרִ֛דוּ אִ֥ישׁ אֶת אַמְתַּחְתּ֖/וֹ אָ֑רְצָ/ה וַֽ/יִּפְתְּח֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ אַמְתַּחְתּֽ/וֹ
English Translation
And they hurried, and each man brought down his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
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Chapter 44 Context
1
When his brothers were ready to leave, Joseph gave these instructions to his palace manager: “Fill e...
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Then put my personal silver cup at the top of the youngest brother’s sack, along with the money for...
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The brothers were up at dawn and were sent on their journey with their loaded donkeys.
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But when they had gone only a short distance and were barely out of the city, Joseph said to his pal...
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Why have you stolen my master’s silver cup, which he uses to predict the future? What a wicked thing...
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When the palace manager caught up with the men, he spoke to them as he had been instructed.
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“What are you talking about?” the brothers responded. “We are your servants and would never do such...
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Didn’t we return the money we found in our sacks? We brought it back all the way from the land of Ca...
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If you find his cup with any one of us, let that man die. And all the rest of us, my lord, will be y...
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“That’s fair,” the man replied. “But only the one who stole the cup will be my slave. The rest of yo...
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They all quickly took their sacks from the backs of their donkeys and opened them.
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The palace manager searched the brothers’ sacks, from the oldest to the youngest. And the cup was fo...
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When the brothers saw this, they tore their clothing in despair. Then they loaded their donkeys agai...
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14
Joseph was still in his palace when Judah and his brothers arrived, and they fell to the ground befo...
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“What have you done?” Joseph demanded. “Don’t you know that a man like me can predict the future?”
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Judah answered, “Oh, my lord, what can we say to you? How can we explain this? How can we prove our...
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“No,” Joseph said. “I would never do such a thing! Only the man who stole the cup will be my slave....
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Then Judah stepped forward and said, “Please, my lord, let your servant say just one word to you. Pl...
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19
“My lord, previously you asked us, your servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
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And we responded, ‘Yes, my lord, we have a father who is an old man, and his youngest son is a child...
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“And you said to us, ‘Bring him here so I can see him with my own eyes.’
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But we said to you, ‘My lord, the boy cannot leave his father, for his father would die.’
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But you told us, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes with you, you will never see my face again.’
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“So we returned to your servant, our father, and told him what you had said.
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Later, when he said, ‘Go back again and buy us more food,’
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we replied, ‘We can’t go unless you let our youngest brother go with us. We’ll never get to see the...
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“Then my father said to us, ‘As you know, my wife had two sons,
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and one of them went away and never returned. Doubtless he was torn to pieces by some wild animal. I...
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Now if you take his brother away from me, and any harm comes to him, you will send this grieving, wh...
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“And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father’s life is bound up in t...
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If he sees that the boy is not with us, our father will die. We, your servants, will indeed be respo...
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My lord, I guaranteed to my father that I would take care of the boy. I told him, ‘If I don’t bring...
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“So please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his...
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For how can I return to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see the anguish this...
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