044:012 He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest.
The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
044:013 Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey,
and returned to the city.
044:014 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was
still there. They fell on the ground before him.
044:015 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done?
Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
044:016 Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak?
Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity
of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants,
both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
044:017 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 bondservant;
but as for you, go up in peace to your father."
044:018 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.
044:019 My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father,
or a brother?'
044:020 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.'
044:021 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may
set my eyes on him.'
044:022 We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father:
for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
044:023 You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes
down with you, you will see my face no more.'
044:024 It happened when we came up to your servant my father,
we told him the words of my lord.
044:025 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'
044:026 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.'
044:027 Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife
bore me two sons:
044:028 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn
in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
044:029 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him,
you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
044:030 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father,
and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up
in the boy's life;
044:031 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.
044:032 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father,
saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear