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Genesis 44 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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The Brothers Are Brought Back

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:1 - Then he commanded his house steward, saying, “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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:2 - “Put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his money for the grain.” And he did [fn]as Joseph had told him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:3 - [fn]As soon as it was light, the men were sent away, they with their donkeys.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4 - They had just gone out of the city, and were not far off, when Joseph said to his house steward, “Up, follow the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:5 - ‘Is not this the one from which my lord drinks and which he indeed uses for divination? You have done wrong in doing this.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:6 - So he overtook them and spoke these words to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:7 - They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - “Behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks we have brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:9 - “With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:10 - So he said, “Now let it also be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and the rest of you shall be innocent.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:11 - Then they hurried, each man lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:12 - He searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13 - Then they tore their clothes, and when each man loaded his donkey, they returned to the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:14 - When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:15 - Joseph said to them, “What is this deed that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed practice divination?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:16 - So Judah said, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and the one in whose [fn]possession the cup has been found.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:17 - But he said, “Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose [fn]possession the cup has been found, he shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18 - Then Judah approached him, and said, “Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and [fn]do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:19 - “My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:20 - “We said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a little child of his old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:21 - “Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes on him.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:22 - “But we said to my lord, ‘The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, [fn]his father would die.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:23 - “You said to your servants, however, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:24 - “Thus it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:25 - “Our father said, ‘Go back, buy us a little food.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:26 - “But we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:27 - “Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:28 - and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces,” and I have not seen him since.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:29 - ‘If you take this one also from [fn]me, and harm befalls him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in [fn]sorrow.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:30 - “Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since [fn]his life is bound up in the lad’s life,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31 - when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:32 - “For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then [fn]let me bear the blame before my father forever.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:33 - “Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 - “For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me—for fear that I see the evil that would [fn]overtake my father?”
NASB95 Footnotes
Or, according to the word
Literally: The morning was light
Literally: hand
Literally: hand
Literally: let not your anger burn against
Literally: he would
Literally: my face
Literally: evil
Literally: his soul is bound with his soul
Literally: and I shall have sinned for all the days before my father
Literally: find
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