7. And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy servants had committed so heinous a fact?
8. The money, that we found in the top of our sacks, we brought back to thee from the land of Chanaan: how then should it be that we should steal out of thy lord's house, gold or silver?
9. With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou seekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of my lord.
10. And he said to them: Let it be according to your sentence: with whomsoever it shall be found, let him be my servant, and you shall be blameless.
11. Them they speedily took down their sacks to the ground, and every man opened his sack.
12. Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest and ending at the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.
13. Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town.