Gen 44:9 "With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves."
Gen 44:10 So he said, "Now let it also be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and the rest of you shall be innocent."
Gen 44:11 Then they hurried, each man lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
Gen 44:12 He searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Gen 44:13 Then they tore their clothes, and when each man loaded his donkey, they returned to the city.
Gen 44:14 ¶ When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.
Gen 44:15 Joseph said to them, "What is this deed that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed practice divination?"
Gen 44:16 So Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are my lord's slaves, both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been found."
Gen 44:17 But he said, "Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose possession the cup has been found, he shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."
Gen 44:18 ¶ Then Judah approached him, and said, "Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord's ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.
Gen 44:19 "My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father or a brother?'
Gen 44:20 "We said to my lord, 'We have an old father and a little child of his old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.'
Gen 44:21 "Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes on him.'
Gen 44:22 "But we said to my lord, 'The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
Gen 44:23 "You said to your servants, however, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'
Gen 44:24 "Thus it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Gen 44:26 "But we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
Gen 44:27 "Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons;
Gen 44:28 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces," and I have not seen him since.
Gen 44:29 'If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'