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Ask a Question"When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
And when our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food,'
Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord's servants."
When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words.
Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.
My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their donkeys.
Then each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack,
When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground.
and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain." And he did as Joseph told him.
He said, "Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent."
We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.'"
They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?"