10. He said, “Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent.”
11. Then each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
12. And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13. Then they tore their clothes, and every 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. They fell before him to the ground.
15. Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?”
16. And Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found.”
17. But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
18. Then Judah went up to him and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.
19. My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
20. And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’
21. Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
22. We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
23. Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.’
24. “When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.