6. So he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same words.
7. They said to him, “Why does my lord say these words? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing.
8. Look, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money that we found in the top of our sacks. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?
9. Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and the rest of us will become my lord’s slaves.”
10. He said, “Now let it also be according to your words. He with whom it is found shall be my slave, and you will be blameless.”
11. Then every man hurriedly took down his sack to the ground, and every man opened his sack.
12. He searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13. Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey and returned to the city.
14. When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there; and they fell to the ground before him.
15. Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can certainly practice divination?”
16. And Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Here we are, my lord’s servants, both we and he also in whose possession the cup was found.”
17. But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose possession the cup was found shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
18. Then Judah approached him and said, “O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh.
19. My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’
20. And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’