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He commanded 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. See also: Genesis 42:25Genesis 43:16Isaiah 3:1Put 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 had spoken. See also: 2 Corinthians 8:8Deuteronomy 8:16Deuteronomy 13:3As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good? See also: John 10:32Psalms 35:121 Samuel 24:17Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’” See also: 2 Kings 21:6Leviticus 19:26Genesis 30:27He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them. 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! See also: Genesis 38:16-18Joshua 22:22-29Genesis 35:22Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house? See also: Genesis 42:27Genesis 42:35Genesis 44:7With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.” See also: Genesis 31:32Job 31:38-40Psalms 7:3-5He 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.” See also: Genesis 44:33Genesis 44:17Exodus 22:3Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack. He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. See also: Genesis 43:14Genesis 44:2Genesis 44:26-32Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city. See also: 2 Samuel 1:11Genesis 37:29-34Numbers 14:6Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him. See also: Philippians 2:10-11Genesis 43:16Genesis 43:25Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?” See also: Genesis 44:4-5Genesis 3:13Genesis 39:8Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.” See also: Genesis 44:9Daniel 9:7Luke 12:2He 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.” See also: Genesis 42:182 Samuel 23:3Genesis 26:29Then Judah 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. See also: Exodus 32:22Genesis 18:30Genesis 41:40My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ See also: Genesis 43:7Genesis 42:7-10Genesis 43:29We 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 loves him.’ See also: Genesis 37:3Genesis 42:38Genesis 43:7-8You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ See also: Genesis 42:15Genesis 42:20Jeremiah 24:6We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ See also: Genesis 44:30Genesis 42:38You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’ See also: Genesis 43:3Genesis 43:5Genesis 42:15-20When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. See also: Genesis 42:29-34Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’ See also: Genesis 43:2Genesis 43:5We 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.’ See also: Luke 11:7Genesis 43:4-5Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. See also: Genesis 46:19Genesis 35:16-18Genesis 30:22-25One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since. See also: Genesis 37:33Genesis 37:13-14Genesis 42:38If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’ See also: Genesis 42:38Genesis 43:14Genesis 44:31Now 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; See also: 1 Samuel 18:12 Samuel 18:33Genesis 44:34it 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. See also: Genesis 44:29Genesis 37:352 Corinthians 7:10For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’ See also: Genesis 43:8-9Genesis 43:16Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers. See also: 1 John 3:16Hebrews 7:22Romans 5:7-10For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.” See also: Esther 8:6Psalms 119:143Job 31:29
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)12 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Genesis 44:4
Ver. 4. Pursue; escorted by a troop of horsemen, to prevent resistance. M.
↑ 4Genesis 44:5
Ver. 5. To divine. This was spoken by Joseph to his steward in jest; alluding to the notion of the people, who took him to be a diviner. Ch. --- S. Tho. 2, 2, q. 195, a. 7. Heb. may be translated without attending to the points, "Is not this the cup, out of which my lord drinketh; and he has augured, or discovered, by it the evil which you have committed." Pliny (xxx. 2.) mentions a method of divining, by means of water in a basin. C. --- The Egyptians probably supposed that Joseph used some means to disclose what was hidden; and he alludes, in jest, to their foolish notion. H. --- He had a right to afflict his guilty brethren; and as for Benjamin, who was innocent, he made him ample recompense for this transitory terror. Some think that the steward said, in which he is wont to divine, unauthorized by his master. M.
↑ 5Genesis 44:10
Ver. 10. Sentence. It is but just; yet I shall only insist on the detention of the culprit. C. --- Joseph wished to see whether the marks of attention, which he had shewn to Benjamin, would have excited the envy of his brethren (M.); and whether they would be concerned for him: thus he would discover their present dispositions. He might wish also to keep his younger brother out of danger, in case they were inclined to persecute him. H.
↑ 10Genesis 44:13
Ver. 13. The town, with heavy hearts, of which their torn garments were signs (H.): yet they say not a word in condemnation of Benjamin. They are determined either to clear him, or never to return home. M.
↑ 13Genesis 44:14
Ver. 14. Juda, mindful of his engagement, (C. xli i. 9,) and perhaps more eloquent and bolder than the rest. M.
↑ 14Genesis 44:15
Ver. 15. The science of divining. He speaks of himself according to what he was esteemed in that kingdom. And, indeed, he being truly a prophet, knew more without comparison than any of the Egyptian sorcerers. Ch. --- Heb.
Sept. and Chal. "knew ye not that a man like me would divine with certainty," and presently discover any fraud? C.
↑ 15Genesis 44:16
Ver. 16. Iniquity. He begins with the greatest humility, acknowledging that they were justly punished by God for some transgression, though they were, in his opinion, innocent of any theft. H. --- Perhaps he might imagine that Benjamin had been guilty, (Bonfrere) and is willing to bear a part of the blame with the rest; or his conscience still presents before him the injustice done to Joseph so long before. H.
↑ 16Genesis 44:18
Ver. 18. Boldly, perceiving that he had to deal with an equitable judge. --- Thou art; the second man in the kingdom. Heb. "even as Pharao."
↑ 18Genesis 44:20
Ver. 20. Is left of, (habet mater.) Rachel had been dead about twenty-four years. H.
↑ 20Genesis 44:31
Ver. 31. With us, is not now found in Heb. But it is in the Sam.
Sept. Syr. and Chaldee. C. --- His grey hairs. That is, his person, now far advanced in years. --- With sorrow unto hel .
The Hebrew word for hel is here Sheola, the Greek hades: it is not taken for the hel of the damned; but for that place of souls below, where the servants of God were kept before the coming of Christ. Which place, both in the Scripture and in the creed, is named hell. Ch. --- In this speech, we find many particulars not mentioned before; whence it appears, that the sacred historian does not always specify every circumstance. But, in relating the same speech, uses various expressions to the same purport. C.
↑ 31Genesis 44:33
Ver. 33. The boy. I am older, and more fit for service. M.
↑ 33Genesis 44:34
Ver. 34. My father; who will drop down dead, oppressed with grief. How eloquent and pathetic was this address! Joseph could bear no more.
↑ 34License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses