Verse 3
Genesis 44:3
World English Bible, British Edition
3
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their
donkeys.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הַ/בֹּ֖קֶר א֑וֹר וְ/הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֣ים שֻׁלְּח֔וּ הֵ֖מָּה וַ/חֲמֹרֵי/הֶֽם
English Translation
In the morning light, the men were sent, and their donkeys.
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Chapter 44 Context
1
He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with
food, as much as they can...
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2
Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with
his grain money.” He did accor...
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3
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their
donkeys.
4
When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph
said to his steward, “Up, follo...
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5
Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines?
You have done evil in so...
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6
He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
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7
They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these?
Far be it from your servants that the...
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8
Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again
to you out of the land of C...
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9
With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also
will be my lord’s slaves.”
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10
He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with
whom it is found will be my slave; and...
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11
Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground,
and each man opened his sack.
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12
He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest.
The cup was found in Benjamin’s...
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13
Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned
to the city.
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14
Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still
there. They fell on the ground befor...
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15
Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you
know that such a man as I can...
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16
Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak?
How will we clear ourselves? God (Elohim...
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17
He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in
whose hand the cup is found, he will be...
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18
Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please
let your servant speak a word in my lord...
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19
My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
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20
We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his
old age, a little one; and his...
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21
You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my
eyes on him.’
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22
We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should
leave his father, his father w...
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23
You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down
with you, you will see my face n...
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24
When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of
my lord.
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25
Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
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26
We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then
we will go down: for we may not...
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27
Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me
two sons.
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28
One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and
I haven’t seen him since.
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29
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will
bring down my grey hairs with s...
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30
Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is
not with us; since his life is b...
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31
it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will
die. Your servants will bring dow...
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32
For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying,
‘If I don’t bring him to you, t...
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33
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my
lord’s slave; and let the boy go...
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34
For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I
see the evil that will come on m...
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