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Genesis 44:11-19 Amplified Bible (AMP)

11. Then quickly every man lowered his sack to the ground and every man opened his sack.

12. And [the steward] searched, beginning with the eldest and stopping with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

13. Then they rent their clothes; and after each man had loaded his donkey again, they returned to the city.

14. Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, for he was still there; and they fell prostrate before him.

15. Joseph said to them, What is this thing that you have done? Do you not realize that such a man as I can certainly detect and know by divination [everything you do without other knowledge of it]?

16. And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? What shall we reply? Or how shall we clear ourselves, since God has found out and exposed the iniquity of your servants? Behold, we are my lord's slaves, the rest of us as well as he with whom the cup is found.

17. But [Joseph] said, God forbid that I should do that; but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for [the rest of] you, arise and go in peace to your father.

18. Then Judah came close to [Joseph] and said, O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word to you in private, and let not your anger blaze against your servant, for you are as Pharaoh [so I will speak as if directly to him].

19. My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father or a brother?

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