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Genesis 44
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44Later, Joseph commanded his palace manager, "Fill the men's sacks to full capacity with food and replace each man's money at the top of the sack.H6680H1004H559H4390H582H572H400H834H3201H5375H7760H376H3701H572H6310
2Then place my cup - the silver one - in the top of the sack belonging to the youngest one, along with the money he brought to buy grain." So the manager did precisely what Joseph told him to do.1H7760H1375H3701H1375H572H6310H6996H7668H3701H6213H1697H3130H1696
3Early the next morning, the men were sent on their way, along with their donkeys.H1242H215H582H7971H2543
4They had not traveled far from the city when Joseph ordered his palace manager, "Get up, follow those men, and when you've caught up with them, ask them, 'Why did you repay evil for good -H3318H5892H7368H3130H559H1004H6965H7291H310H582H5381H559H7999H7451H2896
5Don't you have the cup that my master uses to drink from and also uses to practice divination - You're wrong to have done this.'"H113H8354H5172H5172H7489H6213
6So he went after them and made that accusation.5H5381H1696H428H1697
7"Your Excellency," they replied, "Why do you speak like this - Far be it from your servants to act like this.H559H1696H113H1697H2486H5650H6213H1697
8Look, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money that we found at the top of our sacks. How, then, could we have stolen silver or gold from your master's palace -H3701H4672H572H6310H7725H776H3667H1589H113H1004H3701H2091
9Go ahead and execute whichever one of your servants is discovered to have it, and we'll remain as your master's slaves."H5650H4672H4191H113H5650
10"Agreed," he responded. "Just as you've said, the one who is found to have it in his possession will become my slave, and the rest of you will be innocent."H559H1697H3651H4672H5650H5355
11So they quickly dismounted, unloaded their sacks to the ground, and each man opened his own sack.H4116H3381H376H572H776H6605H376H572
12The palace manager searched for the cup, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and it was discovered in Benjamin's sack.H2664H2490H1419H3615H6996H1375H4672H1144H572
13At this, they all tore their clothes, reloaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.H7167H8071H6006H376H2543H7725H5892
14Joseph was waiting for them back at his palace when his brothers returned. They fell to the ground in front of him,H3063H251H935H3130H1004H5307H6440H776
15and Joseph asked them, "Why did you do this - Don't you know that I'm an expert at practicing divination?"H3130H559H4639H6213H3045H376H5172H5172
16"What can we say, your Excellency," Judah replied. "How can we explain this or justify ourselves - God has discovered the sin of your servants, and now we've become slaves to you, your Excellency, both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been discovered."H3063H559H559H113H1696H6663H430H4672H5771H5650H113H5650H1571H834H3027H1375H4672
17"Far be it from me to do this," Joseph responded. "The man in whose possession the cup was discovered will be my slave, but the rest of you may leave in peace to be with your father."H559H2486H6213H2063H376H3027H1375H4672H5650H5927H7965H1
18But Judah approached him and begged him, "Your Excellency, please allow your servant to speak to you privately. Please don't be angry with your servant, since you are equal to Pharaoh.H3063H5066H559H994H113H5650H1696H1697H113H241H639H2734H5650H6547
19Your Excellency asked his servants, 'Do you have a father or brother?'H113H7592H5650H559H3426H1H251
20and we answered your Excellency, 'We have an aged father and a younger child who was born when he was old. His brother is now dead, so he's the only survivor living from his mother. His father loves him.'H559H113H3426H1H2205H3206H2208H6996H251H4191H3498H517H1H157
21"But then you ordered your servants, 'Bring him here to me so I can see him for myself.'H559H5650H3381H7760H5869
22"So we told your Excellency, 'The young man cannot leave his father, because if he were to do so, his father would die.'H559H113H5288H3201H5800H1H5800H1H4191
23But then you told your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes back with you, you won't see my face again.'H559H5650H3808H6996H251H3381H7200H3254H6440H7200H3254
24"Later on, after we had gone back to your servant, my father, we told him what your Excellency had said.H5927H5650H1H5046H1697H113
25"'Go back,' our father ordered, 'and buy us a little food.'H1H559H7725H7666H4592H400
26"But we told him, 'We can't go back there. If our youngest brother accompanies us, we'll go back, but we cannot see the man's face again unless our youngest brother accompanies us.'H559H3201H3381H6996H251H3426H3381H3201H7200H376H6440H369H6996H251
27"Then your servant, our father, said to us, 'You know my wife bore me two sons.H5650H1H559H3045H802H3205H8147
28One of them left me, so I concluded "I'm certain that he has been torn to pieces," and I haven't seen him since then.H259H3318H559H2963H2963H7200H2008
29If you take this one from me, too, and then something harmful happens to him, you will be sending me and my gray hair to death in sorrow.'H3947H5973H6440H611H7136H3381H7872H7451H7585
30"So when I go back to your servant, my father, and the young man isn't with us, since he's constantly living life focused on his son,H935H5650H1H5288H5315H7194H5315
31when he notices that the young man hasn't come back with us, he'll die, and your servants really will have brought the gray hair of your servant, our father, to death in sorrow.H7200H5288H4191H5650H3381H7872H5650H1H3015H7585
32Furthermore, your servant pledged his own life as a guarantee of the young man's safety. I told my father, 'If I don't bring him back to you, then let me be responsible to my father forever.'H5650H6148H5288H5973H1H559H935H2398H1H3117
33"Therefore, please allow your servant to remain as a slave to your Excellency, instead of the young man, and let the young man go back home with his brothers.H5650H3427H5288H5650H113H5288H5927H251
34After all, how can I go back to my father if the young man doesn't accompany me - I'm afraid of what might happen to my father."H349H5927H1H5288H7200H7451H4672H1


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