Genesis 44:5   (Read all of Genesis 44)

Isn't this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination? This is a wicked thing you have done.' "

Genesis 44:7   (Read all of Genesis 44)

But they said to him, "Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do anything like that!

Genesis 44:8   (Read all of Genesis 44)

We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found inside the mouths of our sacks. So why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?

Genesis 44:9   (Read all of Genesis 44)

If any of your servants is found to have it, he will die; and the rest of us will become my lord's slaves."

Genesis 44:10   (Read all of Genesis 44)

"Very well, then," he said, "let it be as you say. Whoever is found to have it will become my slave; the rest of you will be free from blame."

Genesis 44:12   (Read all of Genesis 44)

Then the steward proceeded to search, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

Genesis 44:15   (Read all of Genesis 44)

Joseph said to them, "What is this you have done? Don't you know that a man like me can find things out by divination?"

Genesis 44:16   (Read all of Genesis 44)

"What can we say to my lord?" Judah replied. "What can we say? How can we prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants' guilt. We are now my lord's slaves-we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup."

Genesis 44:17   (Read all of Genesis 44)

But Joseph said, "Far be it from me to do such a thing! Only the man who was found to have the cup will become my slave. The rest of you, go back to your father in peace."

Genesis 44:18   (Read all of Genesis 44)

Then Judah went up to him and said: "Pardon your servant, my lord, let me speak a word to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, though you are equal to Pharaoh himself.

Genesis 44:19   (Read all of Genesis 44)

My lord asked his servants, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'

Genesis 44:20   (Read all of Genesis 44)

And we answered, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

Genesis 44:21   (Read all of Genesis 44)

"Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me so I can see him for myself.'

Genesis 44:23   (Read all of Genesis 44)

But you told your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'

Genesis 44:24   (Read all of Genesis 44)

When we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.

Genesis 44:26   (Read all of Genesis 44)

But we said, 'We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go. We cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'

Genesis 44:27   (Read all of Genesis 44)

"Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.

Genesis 44:29   (Read all of Genesis 44)

If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery.'

Genesis 44:30   (Read all of Genesis 44)

"So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy's life,

Genesis 44:31   (Read all of Genesis 44)

sees that the boy isn't there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.

Genesis 44:32   (Read all of Genesis 44)

Your servant guaranteed the boy's safety to my father. I said, 'If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!'

Genesis 44:33   (Read all of Genesis 44)

"Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

Genesis 45:4   (Read all of Genesis 45)

Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come close to me." When they had done so, he said, "I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!

Genesis 45:5   (Read all of Genesis 45)

And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.