New International Version

Genesis 44:8-15 New International Version (NIV)

8. We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found inside the mouths of our sacks. So why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

9. If any of your servants is found to have it, he will die; and the rest of us will become my lord’s slaves.”

10. “Very well, then,” he said, “let it be as you say. Whoever is found to have it will become my slave; the rest of you will be free from blame.”

11. Each of them quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

12. Then the steward proceeded to search, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

13. At this, they tore their clothes. Then they all loaded their donkeys and returned to the city.

14. Joseph was still in the house when Judah and his brothers came in, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

15. Joseph said to them, “What is this you have done? Don’t you know that a man like me can find things out by divination?”