Genesis 44:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then the man searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack!

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  • Gen 42:36-38 : 36 Their father Jacob said to them,“You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.” 37 Then Reuben said to his father,“You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care and I will bring him back to you.” 38 But Jacob replied,“My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.”
  • Gen 43:14 : 14 May the Sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”
  • Gen 43:33 : 33 They sat before him, arranged by order of birth, beginning with the firstborn and ending with the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.
  • Gen 44:2 : 2 Then put my cup– the silver cup– in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the money for his grain.” He did as Joseph instructed.
  • Gen 44:26-32 : 26 But we replied,‘We cannot go down there. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, for we won’t be permitted to see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’ 27 “Then your servant my father said to us,‘You know that my wife gave me two sons. 28 The first disappeared and I said,“He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since. 29 If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’ 30 “So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us– his very life is bound up in his son’s life. 31 When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave. 32 Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 44:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10He replied,“You have suggested your own punishment! The one who has it will become my slave, but the rest of you will go free.”

    11So each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

  • Gen 44:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1The Final Test He instructed the servant who was over his household,“Fill the sacks of the men with as much food as they can carry and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack.

    2Then put my cup– the silver cup– in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the money for his grain.” He did as Joseph instructed.

    3When morning came, the men and their donkeys were sent off.

  • Gen 44:13
    77%

    13They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

  • Gen 42:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    35When they were emptying their sacks, there was each man’s bag of money in his sack! When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were afraid.

    36Their father Jacob said to them,“You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

  • Gen 42:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27When one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey at their resting place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.

    28He said to his brothers,“My money was returned! Here it is in my sack!” They were dismayed; they turned trembling to one another and said,“What in the world has God done to us?”

  • Gen 43:33-34
    2 verses
    73%

    33They sat before him, arranged by order of birth, beginning with the firstborn and ending with the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.

    34He gave them portions of the food set before him, but the portion for Benjamin was five times greater than the portions for any of the others. They drank with Joseph until they all became drunk.

  • Gen 43:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15So the men took these gifts, and they took double the money with them, along with Benjamin. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

    16When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant who was over his household,“Bring the men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon.”

  • Gen 44:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15Joseph said to them,“What did you think you were doing? Don’t you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?”

    16Judah replied,“What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has exposed the sin of your servants! We are now my lord’s slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”

    17But Joseph said,“Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of you may go back to your father in peace.”

  • Gen 44:8
    71%

    8Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

  • Gen 45:22
    70%

    22He gave sets of clothes to each one of them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothes.

  • Gen 42:25
    70%

    25Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man’s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out.

  • Gen 45:14
    69%

    14Then he threw himself on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

  • Gen 37:32
    69%

    32Then they brought the special tunic to their father and said,“We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

  • Gen 43:29
    68%

    29When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he said,“Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?” Then he said,“May God be gracious to you, my son.”

  • Gen 37:15
    68%

    15When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him,“What are you looking for?”

  • Exod 1:3
    68%

    3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

  • Gen 43:22
    68%

    22We have brought additional money with us to buy food. We do not know who put the money in our sacks!”

  • Gen 44:5
    68%

    5Doesn’t my master drink from this cup and use it for divination? You have done wrong!’”