With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 44:9 in context
Genesis 44:6–12
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He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
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They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
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Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?
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With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
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He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”
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Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
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He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
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