Verse 16
Genesis 44:16
Literal Standard Version
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And Judah says, “What do we say to my lord? What do we speak? And how do we justify ourselves? God (Elohim) has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are servants to my lord, both we, and he in whose hand the cup has been found”;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוּדָ֗ה מַה נֹּאמַר֙ לַֽ/אדֹנִ֔/י מַה נְּדַבֵּ֖ר וּ/מַה נִּצְטַדָּ֑ק הָ/אֱלֹהִ֗ים מָצָא֙ אֶת עֲוֺ֣ן עֲבָדֶ֔י/ךָ הִנֶּ/נּ֤וּ עֲבָדִים֙ לַֽ/אדֹנִ֔/י גַּם אֲנַ֕חְנוּ גַּ֛ם אֲשֶׁר נִמְצָ֥א הַ/גָּבִ֖יעַ בְּ/יָדֽ/וֹ
English Translation
And Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak, and how shall we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are my lord's servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup was found."
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Chapter 44 Context
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And he commands him who is over his house, saying, “Fill the bags of the men with food, as they are...
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and my cup, the silver cup, you put in the mouth of the bag of the young one, and his grain-money”;...
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The morning is bright, and the men have been sent away, they and their donkeys—
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they have gone out of the city—they have not gone far off—and Joseph has said to him who is over his...
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Is this not that with which my lord drinks? And he observes diligently with it; you have done evil i...
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And he overtakes them, and speaks to them these words,
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and they say to him, “Why does my lord speak according to these words? Far be it from your servants...
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behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back to you from the land of Ca...
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With whomsoever of your servants it is found, he has died, and we also are to my lord for servants.”
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And he says, “Now also, according to your words, so it is; he with whom it is found becomes my serva...
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and they hurry and take down each his bag to the earth, and each opens his bag;
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and he searches—at the eldest he has begun, and at the youngest he has completed—and the cup is foun...
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and they tear their garments, and each loads his donkey, and they return to the city.
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And Judah and his brothers come to the house of Joseph, and he is yet there, and they fall to the ea...
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and Joseph says to them, “What is this deed that you have done? Have you not known that a man like m...
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And Judah says, “What do we say to my lord? What do we speak? And how do we justify ourselves? God (...
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and he says, “Far be it from me to do this; the man in whose hand the cup has been found, he becomes...
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And Judah comes near to him and says, “O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in the ears o...
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My lord has asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or brother?
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And we say to my lord, We have a father, an aged one, and a child of old age, a little one; and his...
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And you say to your servants, Bring him down to me, and I set my eye on him;
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and we say to my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he has left his father, then...
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and you say to your servants, If your young brother does not come down with you, you do not add to s...
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And it comes to pass, that we have come up to your servant my father, that we declare to him the wor...
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and our father says, Return, buy for us a little food,
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and we say, We are not able to go down; if our young brother is with us, then we have gone down; for...
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And your servant my father says to us, You have known that my wife bore two to me,
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and one goes out from me, and I say, Surely he is torn—torn! And I have not seen him since;
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when you have taken also this from my presence, and harm has met him, then you have brought down my...
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And now, at my coming to your servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up...
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then it has come to pass, when he sees that the youth is not, that he has died, and your servants ha...
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for your servant obtained the youth by guarantee to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you—...
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And now, please let your servant abide instead of the youth as a servant to my lord, and the youth g...
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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...
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