4. They had not gone far out of the city when Joseph said to his steward: “Go at once after the men! When you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why did you repay good with evil? Why did you steal my silver goblet?
5. Is it not the very one from which my master drinks and which he uses for divination? What you have done is wrong.’”
6. When the steward overtook them and repeated these words to them,
7. they said to him: “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
8. We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money that we found in the mouths of our bags. How could we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
9. If any of your servants is found to have the goblet, he shall die, and as for the rest of us, we shall become my lord’s slaves.”
10. But he replied, “Now what you propose is fair enough, but only the one who is found to have it shall become my slave, and the rest of you can go free.”
11. Then each of them quickly lowered his bag to the ground and opened it;