Verse 7
Genesis 44:7
Literal Standard Version
7
and they say to him, “Why does my lord speak according to these words? Far be it from your servants to do according to this word;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֔י/ו לָ֚/מָּה יְדַבֵּ֣ר אֲדֹנִ֔/י כַּ/דְּבָרִ֖ים הָ/אֵ֑לֶּה חָלִ֨ילָ/ה֙ לַ/עֲבָדֶ֔י/ךָ מֵ/עֲשׂ֖וֹת כַּ/דָּבָ֥ר הַ/זֶּֽה
English Translation
And they said to me, "Why is my lord speaking these words? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing."
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
Done.
Sign in to save notes and annotations.
Chapter 44 Context
1
And he commands him who is over his house, saying, “Fill the bags of the men with food, as they are...
Focus ↗
2
and my cup, the silver cup, you put in the mouth of the bag of the young one, and his grain-money”;...
Focus ↗
3
The morning is bright, and the men have been sent away, they and their donkeys—
Focus ↗
4
they have gone out of the city—they have not gone far off—and Joseph has said to him who is over his...
Focus ↗
5
Is this not that with which my lord drinks? And he observes diligently with it; you have done evil i...
Focus ↗
6
And he overtakes them, and speaks to them these words,
Focus ↗
7
and they say to him, “Why does my lord speak according to these words? Far be it from your servants...
8
behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back to you from the land of Ca...
Focus ↗
9
With whomsoever of your servants it is found, he has died, and we also are to my lord for servants.”
Focus ↗
10
And he says, “Now also, according to your words, so it is; he with whom it is found becomes my serva...
Focus ↗
11
and they hurry and take down each his bag to the earth, and each opens his bag;
Focus ↗
12
and he searches—at the eldest he has begun, and at the youngest he has completed—and the cup is foun...
Focus ↗
13
and they tear their garments, and each loads his donkey, and they return to the city.
Focus ↗
14
And Judah and his brothers come to the house of Joseph, and he is yet there, and they fall to the ea...
Focus ↗
15
and Joseph says to them, “What is this deed that you have done? Have you not known that a man like m...
Focus ↗
16
And Judah says, “What do we say to my lord? What do we speak? And how do we justify ourselves? God (...
Focus ↗
17
and he says, “Far be it from me to do this; the man in whose hand the cup has been found, he becomes...
Focus ↗
18
And Judah comes near to him and says, “O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in the ears o...
Focus ↗
19
My lord has asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or brother?
Focus ↗
20
And we say to my lord, We have a father, an aged one, and a child of old age, a little one; and his...
Focus ↗
21
And you say to your servants, Bring him down to me, and I set my eye on him;
Focus ↗
22
and we say to my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he has left his father, then...
Focus ↗
23
and you say to your servants, If your young brother does not come down with you, you do not add to s...
Focus ↗
24
And it comes to pass, that we have come up to your servant my father, that we declare to him the wor...
Focus ↗
25
and our father says, Return, buy for us a little food,
Focus ↗
26
and we say, We are not able to go down; if our young brother is with us, then we have gone down; for...
Focus ↗
27
And your servant my father says to us, You have known that my wife bore two to me,
Focus ↗
28
and one goes out from me, and I say, Surely he is torn—torn! And I have not seen him since;
Focus ↗
29
when you have taken also this from my presence, and harm has met him, then you have brought down my...
Focus ↗
30
And now, at my coming to your servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up...
Focus ↗
31
then it has come to pass, when he sees that the youth is not, that he has died, and your servants ha...
Focus ↗
32
for your servant obtained the youth by guarantee to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you—...
Focus ↗
33
And now, please let your servant abide instead of the youth as a servant to my lord, and the youth g...
Focus ↗
34
for how do I go up to my father, and the youth not with me? Lest I look on the evil which finds my f...
Focus ↗