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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 44 New Heart English Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/44.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/44-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NHEB</a> > Genesis 44</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/43.htm" title="Genesis 43">◄</a> Genesis 44 <a href="../genesis/45.htm" title="Genesis 45">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">New Heart English Bible</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then he instructed the manager of his house, saying, "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. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack�s mouth of the youngest, along with the silver for his grain." So he did according to the word that Joseph had told him. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>As soon as the morning dawned, the men were sent off along with their donkeys. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When they were far from the city, Joseph said to his manager, "Up, go after the men, and when you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good? <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Why have you stolen my silver cup? Isn�t it from this that my lord drinks and by which he indeed uses for divination? You have done evil in doing this.'"<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he caught up with them and spoke these words to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord�s house? <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>With whomever of your servants it is found, he must die, and we also will be my lord�s slaves." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And he said, "Very well, then, it will be as you say. The one with whom it is found will be my slave, but you will be blameless." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then they hurried, and each man lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin�s sack. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph�s house, and he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Joseph said to them, "What is this deed that you have done? Didn�t you know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we clear ourselves? God has uncovered the guilt of your servants. Look, we are my lord�s slaves, both we, and the one in whose possession the cup was found." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose possession the cup was found, he will be my slave. But as for you, go up to your father in peace."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Judah approached him, and said, "My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word in the ears of my lord, and do not become angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child born when he was old, a little one, and his brother is dead, and he is his mother�s only child, and his father loves him.' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, so that I can see him myself.' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And we said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And it happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But our father said, �Go again, buy us a little food.� <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>We said, 'We can�t 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.' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then your servant my father said to us, �You know that my wife bore me two sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And the one disappeared from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces. "And I haven�t seen him since. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So now, when I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boy�s life, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>it will happen, when he sees that the boy is not with us, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy, a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/44-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For how will I go up to my father if the boy isn�t with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come on my father."<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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