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Genesis 44 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
7 Who answered: Why doth our Lord speak so, as though thy servants had committed so heinous a fact?
8 The money that we found in the top of our sacks, we recarried to thee from the land of Chanaan: & how followeth it, that we have stolen out of thy Lord's house gold or silver?
9 With whom soever of thy servants that shall be found which thou seekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of our Lord.
10 Who said to them: Be it done according to your sentence: with whom soever it shall be found, be he my bondmen, and you shall be guiltless.
11 Therefore in haste taking down their sacks upon the ground, every man opened.
12 Which when he had searched, beginning from the elder even to the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.
13 But they renting their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town.
14 And Judas foremost with his brethren entered in to Joseph (for he was not yet gone out of the place) and they fell together before him on the ground.
15 To whom he said: Why would you do so? Know you not that there is not the like to me in the science of divining.
16 To whom Judas said: What shall we answer, my Lord? Or what shall we speak, or be able justly to pretend? God hath found the iniquity of thy servants: lo we are all bondmen to my Lord, both we, & he with whom the cup was found.
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