He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth. Gen 42:25Gen 43:16Gen 24:2Gen 43:19Gen 43:2Isa 3:1 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 2Co 8:8Deu 13:3Deu 8:16Deu 8:2Gen 42:15-16Gen 42:20Gen 43:32Mat 10:16 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good? Jhn 10:32Psa 35:121Sa 24:17Deu 2:16Pro 17:13Psa 109:52Ch 20:11 Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’” 2Ki 21:6Gen 30:27Lev 19:26Deu 18:10-14Gen 44:151Ki 20:33 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing! Gen 38:16-182Ki 8:132Sa 20:20Ecc 7:1Gen 34:25-31Gen 35:22Gen 37:18-32Heb 13:18 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house? Deu 5:19Exo 20:15Gen 42:21Gen 42:27Gen 42:35Gen 43:12Gen 43:21-22Gen 44:7 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.” Gen 31:32Act 25:11Gen 43:18Gen 44:16Job 31:38-40Psa 7:3-5
He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.” Exo 22:3Gen 44:17Gen 44:33Mat 18:24-25
Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack. He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. Gen 42:36-38Gen 43:14Gen 43:33Gen 44:2Gen 44:26-32 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city. 2Sa 1:112Sa 1:22Sa 13:19Gen 37:29-34Num 14:6
Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him. Gen 43:16Gen 43:25Gen 50:18Php 2:10-11Gen 37:7-10 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?” Gen 44:4-5Gen 21:26Gen 3:13Gen 39:8Exo 32:1Gen 4:10
Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.” Gen 44:9Dan 9:7Luk 12:2Num 32:23Act 2:37Deu 25:1Ezr 9:10Ezr 9:15
He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.” 2Sa 23:3Gen 18:25Gen 26:29Gen 37:32-33Gen 42:18Pro 17:15Psa 75:2
Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh. Exo 32:22Gen 18:30Gen 41:40Gen 18:32Gen 41:442Sa 14:12Act 2:29Dan 3:15 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ Gen 43:7Gen 42:7-10Gen 43:29 We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’ Gen 37:3Gen 42:38Gen 35:18Gen 37:19Gen 37:33-35Gen 42:13Gen 42:36Gen 43:7-8 You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ Gen 42:15Gen 42:20Amo 9:4Gen 43:29Jer 24:6Jer 40:4 We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ Gen 42:38Gen 44:30 You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’ Gen 43:3Gen 43:5Gen 42:15-20 When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. Gen 42:29-34 Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’ Gen 43:2Gen 43:5 We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’ Gen 43:4-5Luk 11:7 Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. Gen 46:19Gen 30:22-25Gen 35:16-18Gen 29:18-21Gen 29:28 One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since. Gen 37:33Gen 37:13-14Gen 42:36Gen 42:38 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’ 1 Gen 42:38Gen 43:14Deu 31:17Gen 42:36Gen 44:31Psa 88:3-4 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life; 1Sa 18:11Sa 25:292Sa 18:33Gen 44:17Gen 44:31Gen 44:34 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol. 2 Gen 44:29Gen 37:351Sa 22:221Sa 4:17-181Th 4:132Co 7:10Gen 37:26-27 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’ Gen 43:16Gen 43:8-9 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers. 1Jn 3:16Exo 32:32Heb 7:22Rom 5:7-10Rom 9:3 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.” Est 8:61Sa 2:33-342Ch 34:28Exo 18:8Job 31:29Psa 116:3Psa 119:143Jer 52:10-11