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"Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons;
"With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves."
Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city.
"My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father or a brother?'
As soon as the morning dawned, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
So he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same words.
Then each man speedily let down his sack to the ground, and each opened his sack.
"Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
So he searched. He began with the oldest and left off with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
"So it was, when we went up to your servant my father, that we told him the words of my lord.
So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there; and they fell before him on the ground.
"For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father forever.'
"Also put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his grain money." So he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
And he said, "Now also let it be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and you shall be blameless."
"And we said to my lord, 'The lad 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 lad as a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.
'Is not this the one from which my lord drinks, and with which he indeed practices divination? You have done evil in so doing."'
And they said to him, "Why does my lord say these words? Far be it from us that your servants should do such a thing.
And Joseph said to them, "What deed is this you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can certainly practice divination?"