Genesis 44:26 - Prayer Tents

44Then Joseph commanded his steward: "Fill the men's bags with as much food as they can carry, and put each one's money at the top of his bag.H6680H1004H559H4390H582H572H400H834H3201H5375H7760H376H3701H572H6310 2Put my cup, the silver one, at the top of the youngest one's bag, along with his grain money." So he did as Joseph told him.H7760H1375H3701H1375H572H6310H6996H7668H3701H6213H1697H3130H1696 3At morning light, the men were sent off with their donkeys.H1242H215H582H7971H2543 4They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, "Get up. Pursue the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?H3318H5892H7368H3130H559H1004H6965H7291H310H582H5381H559H7999H7451H2896 5Isn't this the cup that my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wrong!'"H113H8354H5172H5172H7489H6213 6When he overtook them, he said these words to them.H5381H1696H428H1697 7They said to him, "Why does my lord say these things? Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.H559H1696H113H1697H2486H5650H6213H1697 8We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money we found at the top of our bags. How could we steal gold and silver from your master's house?H3701H4672H572H6310H7725H776H3667H1589H113H1004H3701H2091 9If any of us is found to have it, he must die, and we also will become my lord's slaves."H5650H4672H4191H113H5650 10The steward replied, "What you have said is proper, but only the one who is found to have it will be my slave, and the rest of you will be blameless."H559H1697H3651H4672H5650H5355 11So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.H4116H3381H376H572H776H6605H376H572 12The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.H2664H2490H1419H3615H6996H1375H4672H1144H572 13Then they tore their clothes, and each one loaded his donkey and returned to the city.H7167H8071H6006H376H2543H7725H5892 14When Judah and his brothers reached Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell to the ground before him.H3063H251H935H3130H1004H5307H6440H776 15"What is this you have done?" Joseph said to them. "Didn't you know that a man like me could uncover the truth by divination?"H3130H559H4639H6213H3045H376H5172H5172 16"What can we say to my lord?" Judah replied. "How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed your servants' iniquity. We are now my lord's slaves— both we and the one in whose possession the cup was found."H3063H559H559H113H1696H6663H430H4672H5771H5650H113H5650H1571H834H3027H1375H4672 17Then Joseph said, "I swear that I will not do this. The man in whose possession the cup was found will be my slave. The rest of you can go in peace to your father."H559H2486H6213H2063H376H3027H1375H4672H5650H5927H7965H1 18But Judah approached him and said, "Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.H3063H5066H559H994H113H5650H1696H1697H113H241H639H2734H5650H6547 19My lord asked his servants, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'H113H7592H5650H559H3426H1H251 20and we answered my lord, 'We have an elderly father and a young brother, the child of his old age. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'H559H113H3426H1H2205H3206H2208H6996H251H4191H3498H517H1H157 21Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him to me so that I can see him.'H559H5650H3381H7760H5869 22But we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.'H559H113H5288H3201H5800H1H5800H1H4191 23Then you said to your servants, 'If your younger brother does not come down with you, you will not see me again.'H559H5650H3808H6996H251H3381H7200H3254H6440H7200H3254 24"This is what happened when we went back to your servant my father: We reported your words to him.H5927H5650H1H5046H1697H113 25But our father said, 'Go again, and buy us some food.'H1H559H7725H7666H4592H400 26We told him, 'We cannot go down unless our younger brother goes with us. But if our younger brother isn't with us, we cannot see the man.'H559H3201H3381H6996H251H3426H3381H3201H7200H376H6440H369H6996H251 27Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.H5650H1H559H3045H802H3205H8147 28One left— I said that he must have been torn to pieces— and I have never seen him again.H259H3318H559H2963H2963H7200H2008 29If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.'H3947H5973H6440H611H7136H3381H7872H7451H7585 30"So, if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us— his life is wrapped up with the boy's life—H935H5650H1H5288H5315H7194H5315 31when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hairs of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.H7200H5288H4191H5650H3381H7872H5650H1H3015H7585 32Your servant became accountable to my father for the boy, saying, 'If I do not return him to you, I will always bear the guilt for sinning against [you,] my father.'H5650H6148H5288H5973H1H559H935H2398H1H3117 33Now please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers.H5650H3427H5288H5650H113H5288H5927H251 34For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father."H349H5927H1H5288H7200H7451H4672H1