13. At this, they tore their garments. Then, when each man had loaded his donkey again, they returned to the city.
14. When Judah and his brothers entered Joseph’s house, he was still there; so they flung themselves on the ground before him.
15. “How could you do such a thing?” Joseph asked them. “Did you not know that such a man as I could discern by divination what happened?”
16. Judah replied: “What can we say to my lord? How can we plead or how try to prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants’ guilt. Here we are, then, the slaves of my lord—the rest of us no less than the one in whose possession the goblet was found.”
17. Joseph said, “Far be it from me to act thus! Only the one in whose possession the goblet was found shall become my slave; the rest of you may go back unharmed to your father.”
18. Judah then stepped up to him and said: “I beg you, my lord, let your servant appeal to my lord, and do not become angry with your servant, for you are the equal of Pharaoh.
19. My lord asked his servants, ‘Have you a father, or another brother?’