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Genesis 44:5
[Is] not this [the cup] in which my lord drinketh, and by which indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
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Genesis 44:5 in other translations
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
Is this not the cup my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wicked!’”
Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
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In context
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 had gone out of the city, [and] were not [yet] far off, Joseph said to his steward, Arise, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say to them, Why have ye rewarded evil for good?
5 [Is] not this [the cup] in which my lord drinketh, and by which indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
6 And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same words.
7 And they said to him, Why saith my lord these words? Far be it from us that thy servants should do according to this thing:
8 Behold, the money which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to thee from the land of Canaan: how then should we steal from thy lord's house silver or gold?
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