Joseph's Brothers Accused Of Stealing - NKJ

The Brothers Remember How They Treated Joseph. They Do Not Know it Is Joseph They are Dealing with Now. They Believe That All the Trouble They are Having Is Because of What They Did to Joseph When They Sold Him as a Slave.

1. The Brothers Go Back to Face the Accusation of Theft.

Genesis 44:1-5 And he ________________ the steward of his house, saying, Fill the mens sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each mans money in the mouth of his sack. [2] Also put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his grain money. So he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. [3] As soon as the ____________ dawned, the men were sent away, they and their ____________. [4] When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, Get up, follow the men; and when you ______________ them, say to them, Why have you __________ evil for good? [5] Is not this the one from which my lord __________, and with which he indeed ________________ __________________? You have done evil in so doing.

Genesis 44:6-13 So he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same words. [7] And they said to him, Why does my lord say these words? Far be it from us that your servants should do such a thing. [8] Look, we ____________ back to you from the land of Canaan the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lords house? [9] With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lords slaves. [10] And he said, Now also let it be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and you shall be ________________. [11] Then each man ______________ let down his sack to the ground, and each opened his sack. [12] So he ______________. He began with the oldest and left off with the ______________; and the cup was found in ________________ sack. [13] Then they tore their ____________, and each man __________ his __________ and ______________ to the city.

Genesis 44:14-17 So Judah and his ______________ came to Josephs house, and he was still there; and they fell before him on the ground. [15] And Joseph said to them, What deed is this you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can ________________ ______________ __________________? [16] Then Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we clear ________________? God has found out the iniquity of your ______________; here we are, my lords slaves, both we and he also with whom the cup was found. [17] But he said, Far be it from me that I __________ do so; the man in whose hand the cup was found, he shall be my slave. And as for you, go up in peace to your __________.

Genesis 44:18-29 Then Judah came near to him and said: O my lord, __________ let your servant speak a word in my lords hearing, and do not let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even like ____________. [19] My lord asked his servants, __________, Have you a father or a brother? [20] And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, who is young; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his ____________ ______________, and his father loves him. [21] Then you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him. [22] And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father, for if he __________ leave his father, his father _________ die. [23] But you said to your servants, Unless your youngest brother _________ down with you, you shall see my face no more. [24] So it was, when we went up to your servant my father, that we told him the _________ of my lord. [25] And our father said, Go back and buy us a __________ food. [26] But we said, We cannot go down; if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we may not see the mans face unless our youngest brother is with us. [27] Then your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons; [28] and the one went out from me, and I said, __________ he is torn to __________; and I have not seen him _________. [29] But if you take this one also from me, and ______________ ____________ him, you shall bring down my gray hair with __________ to the _________.

Do the brothers seem different from the way they treated Joseph when they sold him as a slave? ____________

2. Judah Pleads to Be Allowed to Stay as Slave in Place of Benjamin, in Whose Sack the Cup was Found.

Genesis 44:30-34 Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lads life, [31] it will happen, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die. So your ______________ will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave. [32] For your servant __________ __________ for the lad to my father, __________, If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame __________ my father forever. [33] Now therefore, __________ let your servant __________ instead of the lad as a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his ______________. [34] For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me, lest ____________ I see the evil that would come upon my father?

Does Judah seem different now from the time when he and his brothers sold Joseph to the traders as a slave? _________________

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