Jubilees

And he did as Joseph commanded, and filled all their sacks with food and put their money in their sacks, and put the cup in Benjamin's sack.

And early in the morning they departed, and it came to pass when they had gone from there that Joseph said to the commissioner of his house: "Pursue them, run and surround them saying: Why do you repay me evil for good? You have stolen from me my silver cup from which my lord drinks. And bring me back their youngest brother, and seek them quickly before I go forward to my judgment seat."

And he ran after them and spoke according to these words.

And they said to him: "God forbid that your servants should do this, and steal any vessel from your lord's house, and the money which we also found in our sacks the first time, we your servants brought back from the land of Canaan.

How then would we steal any vessel? Behold, here we are and our sacks. Search, and wherever you find the cup in the sack of any man among us, let him be killed, and we and our donkeys will serve your lord."

And he said to them: "Not so, but the man with whom I find the cup, only he shall be taken as a servant, and you shall return in peace to your house."

And as he searched their vessels, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, it was found in Benjamin's sack.

And they tore their garments, and loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city and went to Joseph's house, and they all bowed with their faces to the ground before him.

And Joseph said to them: "You have done evil." And they said: "What shall we say and how shall we defend ourselves? Our lord has discovered the transgression of your servants; behold, we are servants of our lord and our donkeys also."

And Joseph said to them: "I also fear the Lord. As for you, go to your houses and let your brother be my servant, because you have done evil. Do you not know that a man delights in this cup as I do with this cup? And yet you stole it from me."

And Judah said: "My lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in the ear of my lord. Two brothers of the mother of your servant gave birth to our father, but one was lost, and was not found, and he alone was left to his mother, and your servant, our father, loves him, and his life also is bound up with the life of this lad.

And it will come to pass that when we go to your servant our father, and the lad is not with us, that he will die, and we will bring down our father in lamentation to death.

Now it is preferable to let me, your servant, remain in the lad's place as a slave to my lord, and let the lad go with his brothers, because I became surety for him in the hands of your servant our father, and if I do not bring him back, your servant will hear the guilt of his father forever."

And Joseph saw that they were all agreeing in kindness one toward another, and he could not contain himself and told them that he was Joseph.

And he spoke with them in the Hebrew language and fell on their necks and wept. But they did not recognize him and began to weep.

And he said to them: "Do not weep over me, but hasten to bring my father to me, and you see that it is my mouth that spoke and the eyes of Benjamin, my brother, see.

And behold, this is the second year of the famine, and there will yet be five years without harvest of fruits of trees or crops.

Go down quickly, you and your servants, so that you may not perish by the famine, and not be hurt by your possessions, because the Lord sent me before you to set things in order that many people may live.

And tell my father that I am alive, and you, behold, you see that the Lord has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and ruler over his house and over the land of Egypt.

And tell my father all my glory, and all the riches and glory that the Lord has given me."

And by the order of the mouth of Pharaoh he gave them chariots and provisions for the way, and he gave them multi-colored and silvered garments.

And to their father he sent silver garments and ten donkeys carrying corn, and he sent them away.

And they went up and told their father that Joseph was alive, and was regulating the corn to all the nations of the earth, and that he was ruler over all the land of Egypt.

And their father did not believe, because he was beside himself in his mind; but when he saw the chariots which Joseph had sent, the life of his spirit revived and he said: "It is enough for me that Joseph is alive; I will go down and see him before I die."