Genesis 44:5 - The Scriptures 2009

⁵ Is this not the one from which my master drinks, and with which he indeed divines? You have done evil in what you have done.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Is it not my master's drinking cup with which he divines [the future]? You have done wrong in doing this.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Is not this that in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

Common English Bible

⁵ Isn’t this the cup my master drinks from and uses to discover God’s plans? What you’ve done is despicable.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ The cup that you have stolen, it is that from which my lord drinks, and in which he is accustomed to discern signs. You have done a very sinful thing.' "

Genesis 44:5 Cross References

Genesis 30:27

And Laḇan said to him, “If please I have found favour in your eyes, stay, for I have divined that יהוה has blessed me for your sake.”

Genesis 44:15

And Yosĕph said to them, “What deed is this you have done? Did you not know that a man like me indeed divines?”

Genesis 44:6

So he overtook them and spoke these words to them.

1 Kings 20:33

And the men divined and they quickly grasped it and said, “Your brother Ben-Haḏaḏ.” And he said, “Go, bring him.” So Ben-Haḏaḏ came out to him, and he let him come up on the chariot.

2 Kings 21:6

And he made his son pass through the fire, and practised magic, and used divination, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.

Leviticus 19:26

‘Do not eat meat with the blood. Do not practise divination or magic.