3. As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their donkeys.
4. They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?
5. Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.’”
6. When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words.
7. They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
8. Behold, 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?
9. Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord’s servants.”