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here himself, after his corn was delivered to him. If Benjamin had stolen it, it had been the basest piece of dishonesty and ingratitude that could be and if Joseph, by ordering it to be there, had designed really to take advantage against him, it had been in him most horrid cruelty and oppression; but it proved, in the issue, that there was no harm done, nor any designed, on either side.
2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest,
and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they
and their asses.
4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph
said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he
divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
How the pretended criminals were pursued and arrested, on suspicion of having stolen a silver cup. The steward charged them with ingratitude--rewarding evil for good; and with folly, in taking away a cup of daily use, and which therefore would soon be missed, and diligent search made for it; for so it may be read: Is not this it in which my lord drinketh (as having a particular fondness for it), and for which he would search thoroughly? Ge 44:5. Or, "By which, leaving it carelessly at your table, he would make trial whether you were honest men or no."
6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same
words.
7 And they said unto him, wherefore saith my lord these words?
God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
8 behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we
brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?
How they pleaded for themselves. They solemnly protested their innocence, and detestation of so base a thing (Ge 44:7),