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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JUB-43:1",
        "text": "And he did as Joseph had told him, and filled all their sacks for them with food and put money in their sacks, and put the cup in Benjamin's sack. And early in the morning they departed, and it came to pass that, when they had gone from thence, Joseph said unto the steward of his house: 'Pursue them, run and seize them, saying, \"For good ye have requited me with evil; you have stolen from me the silver cup out of which my lord drinks.\" And bring back to me youngest brother, and fetch (him) quickly before I go forth to my seat of judgment.'"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JUB-43:2",
        "text": "after them and said unto them according to these words. And they said unto him: 'God forbid that thy servants should do this thing, and steal from the house of thy lord any utensil, and the money also which we found in our sacks the first time, we thy servants brought back from the How then should we steal any utensil? Behold here are we and our sacks search, and wherever thou findest the cup in the sack of any man amongst us, let him be slain, and asses will serve thy lord.'"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JUB-43:3",
        "text": "And he said unto them: 'Not so, the man with whom I find, shall I take as a servant, and ye shall return in peace unto your house.' searching in their vessels, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest, it was found in And they rent their garments, and laded their asses, and returned to the city and house of Joseph, and they all bowed themselves on their faces to the ground before him."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JUB-43:4",
        "text": "And Joseph said unto them: 'Ye have done evil.' And they said: 'What shall we say and how shall we defend ourselves? Our lord hath discovered the transgression of his servants; behold we are servants of our lord, and our asses also."
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        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JUB-43:5",
        "text": "'And Joseph said unto them: 'I too fear the Lord; as for you, go ye to your homes and let your brother be my servant, for ye have done evil. that a man delights in his cup as I with this cup? And yet ye have stolen it from me.'"
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        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JUB-43:6",
        "text": "And Judah said: 'O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ear two brothers did thy servant's mother bear to our father: one went away and was lost, and hath not been found, and he alone is left of his mother, and thy servant our father loves him, and his life also is bound up with the life of this (lad)."
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        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JUB-43:7",
        "text": "And it will come to pass, when we go to thy servant our father, not with us, that he will die, and we shall bring down our father with sorrow unto Now rather let me, thy servant, abide instead of the boy as a bondsman unto my lord, and let the lad go with his brethren, for I became surety for him at the hand of thy servant our father, bring him back, thy servant will hear the blame to our father for ever.'"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JUB-43:8",
        "text": "that they were all accordant in goodness one with another, and he could not refrain himself, and that he was Joseph. And he conversed with them in the Hebrew tongue and fell on But they knew him not and they began to weep. And he said unto them: 'Weep not over me, but hasten and bring my father to me; and ye see that it is my mouth that speaketh eyes of my brother Benjamin see."
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        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JUB-43:9",
        "text": "For behold this is the second year of the famine, and still five years without harvest or fruit of trees or ploughing. Come down quickly ye and your households, so that ye perish not through the famine, and do not be grieved for your possessions, for the Lord sent me before you to set things in order that many people might live."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JUB-43:10",
        "text": "tell my father that I am still alive, and ye, behold, ye see that the Lord has made me as a father to and ruler over his house and over all the land of Egypt. And tell my father of all my all the riches and glory that the Lord hath given me.'"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JUB-43:11",
        "text": "And by the command of the mouth of Pharaoh he gave them chariots and provisions for the way, and he gave them all raiment and silver. And to their father he sent raiment and silver and ten asses which and he sent them away."
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        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JUB-43:12",
        "text": "And they went up and told their father that Joseph was alive, and was measuring out corn to all the nations of the earth, and that he was ruler over all the land And their father did not believe it, for he was beside himself in his mind; but when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent, the life of his spirit revived, and he said: 'It is enough for me if Joseph lives; I will go down and see him before I die.'"
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        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JUB-43:13",
        "text": "The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament by R.H. Charles, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913 Scanned and Edited by Joshua Williams, Northwest Nazarene College"
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