Genesis 44 — OURB

44Verse 1He enjoined the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.^{Verse 2}Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph [May he add] had spoken.^{Verse 3}As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.^{Verse 4}When they had gone out of the city, and was not yet far off, Joseph [May he add] said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?^{Verse 5}Is not this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”^{Verse 6}He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.^{Verse 7}They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!^{Verse 8}Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan [Humbled]. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?^{Verse 9}With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”^{Verse 10}He said, “Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”^{Verse 11}Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.^{Verse 12}He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin [Son of right hand, Son of south]’s sack.^{Verse 13}Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city. (A: Maftir ·Conclusion·)^{Verse 14}Judah [Praised] and his brothers came to Joseph [May he add]’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him. (S: Maftir ·Conclusion·)^{Verse 15}Joseph [May he add] said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?”^{Verse 16}Judah [Praised] said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the depravity (moral evil) of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”^{Verse 17}He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

Haftarah Mikketz ·Taking leave· ·At the end·:

M'lakhim Alef / 1 King 3:15-4:1

B'rit Hadashah ·New Covenant·: Luke 4:16-30

^{Verse 18}Then Judah [Praised] came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.^{Verse 19}My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’^{Verse 20}We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father 'ahav ·affectionately loves· him.’^{Verse 21}You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’^{Verse 22}We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’^{Verse 23}You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’^{Verse 24}When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.^{Verse 25}Our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’^{Verse 26}We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’^{Verse 27}Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons:^{Verse 28}and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.^{Verse 29}If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol ·Place of the dead·.’^{Verse 30}Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life; (2)^{Verse 31}it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol ·Place of the dead·.^{Verse 32}For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the sin ·err (the standard goal)· before my father forever.’^{Verse 33}Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.^{Verse 34}For how will I go up to my father, if the boy is not with me?— lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”