13. Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town.
14. And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph, (for he was not yet gone out of the place,) and they altogether fell down before him on the ground.
15. And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.
16. And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord? or what shall we say, or be able justly to allege? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are all bondmen to my lord, both we, and he with whom the cup was found.
17. Joseph answered: God forbid that should do so: he that stole the cup, he shall be my bondman: and go you away free to your father.
18. Then Juda coming hearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharao thou art,
19. My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother?
20. And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead: and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly.