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So he overtook them and spoke these words to them.

They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing.

Behold, ^(d)the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks we have brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?

^(e)With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's ^(f)slaves."

So he said, "Now let it also be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and the rest of you shall be innocent."

Then they hurried, each man lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.

He searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and ^(g)the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.