Verse 9
Genesis 44:9
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
9
With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou seekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of my lord.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִמָּצֵ֥א אִתּ֛/וֹ מֵ/עֲבָדֶ֖י/ךָ וָ/מֵ֑ת וְ/גַם אֲנַ֕חְנוּ נִֽהְיֶ֥ה לַֽ/אדֹנִ֖/י לַ/עֲבָדִֽים
English Translation
Whoever is found with your servants and is dead, we too will be your servants.
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Chapter 44 Context
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And Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fill their sacks with corn, as much as they c...
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And in the mouth of the younger's sack put my silver cup, and the price which he gave for the wheat....
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And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses.
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And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way; Joseph sendingfo...
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The cup which you have stolen is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine:...
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He did as he had commanded him. And having overtaken them, he spoke to them the same words.
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And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy servants had committed so heinous a fac...
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The money, that we found in the top of our sacks, we brought back to thee from the land of Chanaan:...
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With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou seekest, let him die, and we will be...
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And he said to them: Let it be according to your sentence: with whomsoever it shall be found, let hi...
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Them they speedily took down their sacks to the ground, and every man opened his sack.
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Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest and ending at the youngest, he found the cup in...
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Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town.
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And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph, (for he was not yet gone out of the place, )...
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And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science o...
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And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord? or what shall we say, or be able justly to alleg...
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Joseph answered: God (Elohim) forbid that should do so: he that stole the cup, he shall be my bondma...
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Then Juda coming hearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy e...
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My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother?
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And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his ol...
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And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I will set my eyes on him.
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We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if he leave him, he will die.
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And thou saidst to thy servants: Except your youngest brother come with you, you shall see my face n...
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Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told him all that my lord had said.
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And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little wheat.
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And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go down with us, we will set out together:...
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Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore two.
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One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him: and hitherto he appeareth not.
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If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way you will bring down my gray hairs with so...
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Therefore if I shall go to thy servant our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life depende...
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And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his gray hai...
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Let me be tht proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not a...
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Therefore I thy servant will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go u...
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For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppr...
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