# Genesis 44

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/44

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Then Joseph gave orders to the steward of his house: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man’s silver in the mouth of his sack.
2. And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” And he did as Joseph told him.
3. As soon as morning dawned, the men were sent on their way with their donkeys.
4. They had gone only a short distance from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Get up and go after the men. When you catch up with them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
5. Is this not the cup my master drinks from, and which he actually uses for divination? You have done wrong in doing this.’”
6. When he caught up with them, he repeated these words to them.
7. They said to him, “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do anything like that!
8. Look, we even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. So why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
9. If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest of us will become my lord’s slaves.”
10. He said, “Very well, let it be as you say: the one who is found to have it will become my slave, and the rest of you will be free of blame.”
11. Each of them quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.
12. Then the steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13. At this they tore their clothes. Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.
14. When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they threw themselves on the ground before him.
15. Joseph said to them, “What is this you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can find things out by divination?”
16. Judah said, “What can we say to my lord? What can we tell you? How can we prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants’ guilt. We are now my lord’s slaves, both we and the one who was found with the cup.”
17. But he said, “Far be it from me to do such a thing! Only the man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you, go back in peace to your father.”
18. Then Judah went up to him and said, “Please, my lord, let your servant speak a word in my lord’s hearing, and do not let your anger burn against your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh himself.
19. My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
20. And we said to my lord, ‘We have an elderly father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
21. Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.’
22. We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves him, his father will die.’
23. But you told your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’
24. When we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.
25. Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us a little food.’
26. But we said, ‘We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go down. We cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
27. Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
28. One of them went away from me, and I said, “He must have been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.
29. If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to Sheol in misery.’
30. So now, if I go back to your servant my father and the boy is not with us—since his life is bound up with the boy’s life—
31. when he sees that the boy is not there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of your servant our father down to Sheol in grief.
32. Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’
33. So now, please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
34. How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come on my father.”

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 43](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/43.md)
[Genesis 45](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/45.md)

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