Verse 8

Look, 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?

Referenced Verses

• Gen 42:21 : 21 They said to one another,“Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!”
• Gen 42:27 : 27 When 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.
• Gen 42:35 : 35 When 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.
• Gen 43:12 : 12 Take double the money with you; you must take back the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks– perhaps it was an oversight.
• Gen 43:21-22 : 21 But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money– the full amount– in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it. 22 We have brought additional money with us to buy food. We do not know who put the money in our sacks!”
• Gen 44:7 : 7 They answered him,“Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
• Exod 20:15 : 15 “You shall not steal.
• Deut 5:19 : 19 You must not steal.
• Matt 19:18 : 18 “Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied,“Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,
• Rom 13:9 : 9 For the commandments,“Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,”(and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this,“Love your neighbor as yourself.”
• Jas 2:10-11 : 10 For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. 11 For he who said,“Do not commit adultery,” also said,“Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.