Genesis 44:12 - Plain English Version

¹² And Joseph’s worker started to look in all those bags. He looked in the oldest man’s bag first, but the cup wasn’t there. Then he went to the next oldest man, and he looked in that man’s bag, but the cup wasn’t there. And he kept on doing that with all the men. He looked in all of their bags until he got to the youngest man. That young man’s name was Benjamin. Joseph’s worker looked in Benjamin’s bag, and he found that silver cup.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And [the steward] searched, beginning with the eldest and stopping with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left off at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

Common English Bible

¹² He searched the oldest first and the youngest last, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And when he had searched, beginning with the oldest, all the way to the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.

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Genesis 44:2

Joseph also said, “Get my special cup, the one that is made of silver. Hide that cup in the youngest man’s bag, on top of the food, with the money he paid for that food.” And Joseph’s boss-worker did all those things that Joseph said.

Genesis 43:33

And Joseph got his brothers to sit together. He got his oldest brother to sit down first, and he got his 2nd oldest brother to sit down next, and then he kept on doing that with all his brothers, and he got his youngest brother to sit down last. So all his brothers were sitting down in order of their age, from the oldest to the youngest. Joseph’s brothers were shocked. They thought, “That man knows how old we all are. How does he know that?”

Genesis 43:14

You know, God is the one that has power over everything. So I’m asking God to make that man feel sorry for you mob. If he feels sorry for you, then he will let your brother Simeon go free, and he will let Simeon and Benjamin come back here with you. But if those things don’t happen, and if my sons die, then I can’t change that.”

Genesis 44:11

So those men quickly took their bags off their donkeys, and they all opened their bags.