Verse 12

And he searched, and began at the eldest and left at the yongest: and the cuppe was found in Beniamins sacke.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 42:36-38 : 36 Then Iaakob their father said to them, Ye haue robbed me of my children: Ioseph is not, & Simeon is not, and ye will take Beniamin: all these things are against me. 37 Then Reuben answered his father, saying, Slay my two sonnes, if I bring him not to thee againe: deliuer him to mine hand, and I will bring him to thee againe. 38 But he sayd, My sonne shall not go downe with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if death come vnto him by the way which ye goe, then ye shall bring my gray head with sorow vnto the graue.
• Gen 43:14 : 14 And God almightie giue you mercie in the sight of the man, that hee may deliuer you your other brother, and Beniamin: but I shall be robbed of my childe, as I haue bene.
• Gen 43:33 : 33 So they sate before him: the eldest according vnto his age, and the yongest according vnto his youth; the men marueiled among themselues.
• Gen 44:2 : 2 And put my cup, I meane the siluer cup, in the sackes mouth of the yongest, and his corne money; he did according to the commandement that Ioseph gaue him.
• Gen 44:26-32 : 26 Then we answered, We can not go downe: but if our yongest brother go with vs, then will we go downe: for we may not see the mans face, except our yongest brother be with vs. 27 Then thy seruant my father sayde vnto vs, Ye knowe that my wife bare me two sonnes, 28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Of a suretie he is torne in pieces, and I sawe him not since. 29 Nowe yee take this also away from me: if death take him, then yee shall bring my graye head in sorowe to the graue. 30 Nowe therefore, when I come to thy seruant my father, & the childe be not with vs (seeing that his life dependeth on the childes life) 31 Then when hee shall see that the childe is not come, he will die: so shall thy seruants bring the graye head of thy seruant our father with sorowe to the graue. 32 Doubtlesse thy seruant became suertie for the childe to my father, and said, If I bring him not vnto thee againe, then I will beare the blame vnto my father for euer.