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THE DREN OF ISRAEL IN EGYPT 73
to buy more grain. They wished to make certain of the return of Benja n and Simeon.
When Joseph s his brothers retu ng and Ben- B ianli1 jamin with them, he ordered his servants to prepare In E pt
a feast. Then Simeon was brou t out to them. Joseph asked his brothers if their father was in good health. He was so happy to see his young brother, Benjamin, that he went into his room and wept for joy. Still his brothers did not know him.
After the feast, Joseph told his servants to ll his brothers' sacks with grain. Again he commanded them to put in their sacks the money they had pa .
He told them to put his own silver cup in the mouth of Benjamin's saek. The brothers did not know that all this had been done, and the next mor ng, they placed the sacks upon their beasts of burden a set out for Chanaan.
After his brothers had gone some distance, Joseph he sent his ief serv t after them. When the servant Sl p overtook them, he asked them why they had retu ed
evil for good, and accused them of stealing his mas-
ter's silver cup. They ew nothing about the silver
cup of which he spoke. They were so certain at the
cup was not in their sacks that they were willing th
he in whose sack it sho d be found should be put to death. They were ready to become Joseph's slaves the servant found the cup in any of their sacks.
They took down the sacks from the beasts and opened them without fear. What a great shock it was to them to see the silver cup in the mouth of Ben­ jamin's sackl