Bereshit 44 בראשית מ״ד

He commanded the one in charge of his house, saying, Fill the men’s bags with as much food as they can carry, and place each man’s money in the opening of his bag.

And my goblet, the silver goblet, put in the opening of the youngest one’s bag, together with the money for his purchase of food. He acted according to the word Yoseif had spoken.

With the morning light, the men were sent [on their way] together with their donkeys.

They had just left the city, they had not gone far, when Yoseif said to the one in charge of his house, Get up, pursue the men, and when you catch up with them, say to them, Why did you repay good with evil.

Why, this is [the goblet] from which my master drinks. He uses it for divination. You have acted badly in what you have done.

He caught up with them, and spoke these exact words to them.

They said to him, Why does my master speak such words? It would be degrading for your servants to do such a thing.

Behold the money that we found in the opening of our bags, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we have stolen silver or gold from your master’s house?

He among your servants with whom it is found, he shall die. We will also be servants to my master.

And he said, Your words are now also correct. The one with whom it is found, he shall be my slave, and you shall be guiltless.

They hurried, and each man lowered his bag to the ground, and each man opened his bag.

He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending with the youngest. The goblet was found in Binyomin’s bag.

They tore their garments [in grief]. Each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

Yehudah and his brothers came to Yoseif’s house. He was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.

Yoseif said to them, What is this deed that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me is an expert diviner ?

Yehudah said, What shall we say to my master? What can we speak? How can we justify ourselves? God has found the iniquity of your servants. Let us be slaves to my master, both we, and the one in whose hand the goblet was found.

He [Yoseif] said [to them], It would be degrading for me to do such a thing. The man in whose hand the goblet was found, he shall be my slave, and [the rest of] you go up in peace to your father.

Yehudah approached him [Yoseif] and said, Please my master, let your servant speak a word in my master’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.

My master asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or brother?

We said to my master, We have a father who is old, and a young child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone survives of his mother, and his father loves him.

You said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.

We said to my master, the lad cannot leave his father, for if he left his father, he would die.

You [then] said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you shall not see my face again.

When we went to your servant, my father, we told him of my master’s words.

Our father said, Go back and buy us a little food.

We said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, we will go down, for we cannot see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.

Your servant, my father said to us, You know that my wife [Rochel] bore me two sons.

One has [already] left me, and I said, surely he is torn to pieces. I have not seen him until now.

If you take this one also away from me, and misfortune befall him, you will bring my white head down to the grave in evil.

And now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the lad is not with us; his soul is bound up with the lad’s soul.

When he sees that the lad is not [with us], he will die. Your servants will have brought down the white head of your servant, our father, to the grave in sorrow.

For your servant became surety for the lad, to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, I will have sinned to my father for all time.

And now, let your servant remain as a slave to my master instead of the lad. Let the lad go up with his brothers.

For how shall I go up to my father when the lad is not with me; lest I see the evil that would befall my father.