Genesis Chapter 44

• Genesis 44:1
  Genesis.
• Genesis 44:2
  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 mout...
• Genesis 44:3
  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.
• Genesis 44:4
  As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
• Genesis 44:5
  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,...
• Genesis 44:6
  Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
• Genesis 44:7
  He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
• Genesis 44:8
  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!
• Genesis 44:9
  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...
• Genesis 44:10
  With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
• Genesis 44:11
  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.”
• Genesis 44:12
  Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
• Genesis 44:13
  He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
• Genesis 44:14
  Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
• Genesis 44:15
  Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
• Genesis 44:16
  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?”
• Genesis 44:17
  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 a...
• Genesis 44:18
  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 f...
• Genesis 44:19
  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 you...
• Genesis 44:20
  My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
• Genesis 44:21
  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 moth...
• Genesis 44:22
  You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
• Genesis 44:23
  We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
• Genesis 44:24
  You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
• Genesis 44:25
  When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
• Genesis 44:26
  Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
• Genesis 44:27
  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 i...
• Genesis 44:28
  Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
• Genesis 44:29
  One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.
• Genesis 44:30
  If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
• Genesis 44:31
  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;
• Genesis 44:32
  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...
• Genesis 44:33
  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.’
• Genesis 44:34
  Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
• Genesis 44:35
  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.”