Verse 5
Genesis 44:5
Free Bible Version
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When he caught up with them, he told them what Joseph had said.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הֲ/ל֣וֹא זֶ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִשְׁתֶּ֤ה אֲדֹנִ/י֙ בּ֔/וֹ וְ/ה֕וּא נַחֵ֥שׁ יְנַחֵ֖שׁ בּ֑/וֹ הֲרֵעֹתֶ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר עֲשִׂיתֶֽם
English Translation
Is this not what my lord drinks from, and he uses it for divination? You have done wrong in what you have done.
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Chapter 44 Context
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Joseph ordered his household supervisor, “Fill the men's sacks with as much grain as they can hold a...
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Then put my special silver cup at the top of the sack of the youngest, along with the money for his...
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They had hardly left the city when Joseph told his household supervisor, “Go after those men, and wh...
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This is the cup he personally drinks from, and which he uses for divination. What you've done is rea...
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When he caught up with them, he told them what Joseph had said.
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“My lord, what are you saying?” they replied. “We your servants wouldn't do anything like that!
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Remember that we brought back the money we found at the top of our sacks when we returned from Canaa...
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If any one of us is found with it, he shall die, and all of us will become your slaves.”
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“Whatever you say,” the man replied, “but only the one found with it will become my slave since the...
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They all unloaded their sacks and put them on the ground. They each opened their own sacks.
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The household supervisor searched the sacks, beginning with the oldest and working his way down to t...
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The brothers tore their clothes in grief. Then they loaded their sacks back on their donkeys and hea...
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Joseph was still at home when Judah and his brothers arrived, and they fell to the ground before him...
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“Why did you do this?” Joseph asked. “Don't you know a man like me can find out things through divin...
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“My lord, what can we say?” Judah replied. “How can we explain this to you? In what way can we prove...
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“I wouldn't do anything like that!” Joseph replied. “Only the man who was found with the cup will be...
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Judah came closer and said to him, “If you please, my lord, let your servant just say a word. Please...
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My lord, previously you asked us, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
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We told you, my lord, ‘We have an elderly father, and a younger brother, born when our father was al...
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Then you ordered us, ‘Bring him here to me so I can see him.’
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We told you, ‘The boy can't leave his father; if he did, his father would die.’
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But you told us, ‘If your youngest brother doesn't come with you, you won't see me again.’
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So when we went back to your servant, our father, we explained to him everything you had told us.
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However, later on, our father told us, ‘Go back and buy some more food.’
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But we said, ‘There's no way we can go back unless Benjamin our youngest brother goes with us, becau...
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Then my father said to us, ‘You realize that my wife had two sons for me.
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One is no more, ripped to pieces no doubt, for I've never seen him since.
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If you take this one away from me too, and something bad happens to him, you'll send this old man to...
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So if the boy isn't with us when I go back to my father, whose life depends on the life of the boy,
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as soon as he sees the boy isn't there he'll die, and we will really send this old man, our father,...
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In fact I gave myself as the guarantee for the boy to my father. I told him, ‘If I don't bring him b...
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So please let me stay here as my lord's slave instead of the boy. Let him go back home with his brot...
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For how could I ever go back to my father if the boy wasn't with me? I couldn't stand seeing the ang...
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