Bible verse

Genesis 44:5

Is this not the cup my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wicked!’”

Genesis 44:5 · BSB

Genesis 44:5 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 44.

1 Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.

2 Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.

3 At daybreak, the men were sent on their way with their donkeys.

4 They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?

5 Is this not the cup my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wicked!’”

6 When the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.

7 “Why does my lord say these things?” they asked. “Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.

8 We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

9 If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”

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Genesis 44:5 in other translations

KJV

[Is] not this [it] in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

ASV

Is not this that in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

ERV

Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

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