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Genesis 44 ERV · ERV Bible Reading

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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis 44.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph sets a trap.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Joseph gave a command to his servant.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, Fill the men's sacks with as much grain as they can carry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then put each man's money into his sack with the grain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put the youngest brother's money in his sack too.
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  SPEAKER_00: But also put my special silver cup in his sack.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the servant obeyed Joseph.
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  SPEAKER_00: Early the next morning the brothers and their donkeys were sent back to their country.
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  SPEAKER_00: After they had left the city, Joseph said to his servant, Go and follow the men, stop them and say to them, We were so good to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So why have you been so bad to us?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did you steal my master's silver cup?
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  SPEAKER_00: My master drinks from that cup, and he uses it to learn secret things.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you did was wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the servant obeyed.
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  SPEAKER_00: He rode out to the brothers and stopped them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The servant said to them what Joseph had told him to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the brother said to the servant, Why does the governor say these things?
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  SPEAKER_00: We wouldn't do anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We brought back the money that we had bound in our sacks before.
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  SPEAKER_00: So surely we wouldn't steal silver or gold from your master's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you find the silver cup in any of our sacks, let that man die.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can kill him and we will be your slaves.
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  SPEAKER_00: The servant said, I agree, except only the man who is found to have the cup will be my slave.
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  SPEAKER_00: The others will be free.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trap is sprung.
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  SPEAKER_00: Benjamin is caught.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then every brother quickly opened his sack on the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: The servant started looking in the sacks.
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  SPEAKER_00: He started with the oldest brother and ended with the youngest.
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  SPEAKER_00: He found the cup in Benjamin's sack.
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  SPEAKER_00: The brothers were very sad.
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  SPEAKER_00: They tore their clothes to show their sadness.
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  SPEAKER_00: They put their sacks back on the donkeys and went back to the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Judah and his brothers went back to Joseph's house, Joseph was still there.
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  SPEAKER_00: The brothers fell to the ground and bowed down before him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph said to them, Why have you done this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Didn't you know that I have a special way of learning secrets?
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  SPEAKER_00: No one is better at this than I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: Judah said, Sir, there is nothing we can say.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no way to explain.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no way to show that we are not guilty.
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  SPEAKER_00: God has judged us guilty for something else we have done, so all of us, even Benjamin, will be your slaves.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Joseph said, I will not make you all slaves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only the man who stole my cup will be my slave.
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  SPEAKER_00: You others can go in peace to your father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Judah pleads for Benjamin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Judah went to Joseph and said, Sir, please let me speak plainly with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please don't be angry with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know that you are like Pharaoh himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we were here before you asked us, do you have a father or brother?
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  SPEAKER_00: And we answered you, we have a father, he is an old man, and we have a younger brother.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our father loves him because he was born while our father was old.
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  SPEAKER_00: This youngest son's brother is dead, so he is the only son who is left from that mother.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our father loves him very much.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you said to us, Bring that brother to me, I want to see him, and we said to you, That young boy cannot come, he cannot leave his father.
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  SPEAKER_00: If his father loses him, his father will be so sad that he will die.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you said to us, You must bring your youngest brother, or I will not sell you grain again.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we went back to our father and told him what you said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Later our father said, Go back and buy us some more food.
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  SPEAKER_00: We said to our father, We cannot go without Benjamin.
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  SPEAKER_00: The governor said he will not sell us grain again until he sees our youngest brother.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then my father said to us, You know that my wife Rachel gave me two sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: I let one go away and he was killed by a wild animal, and I have not seen him since.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you take my other son away from me and something happens to him, I will be sad enough to die.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now imagine what will happen when we go home without our youngest brother.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is the most important thing in our father's life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our father will die if he sees that boy isn't with us, and it will be our fault.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will send our father to his grave, a very sad man.
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  SPEAKER_00: I took responsibility for the young boy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I told my father, if I don't bring him back to me, you can blame me for the rest of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So now I beg you, please let the boy go back with his brothers, and I will stay and be your slave.
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  SPEAKER_00: I cannot go back to my father if the boy is not with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am very afraid of what would happen to my father.