As it approached the time for the brothers to return to Canaan Joseph had their sacks of grain filled to the brim, with each man's silver returned in each sack. Joseph also instructed his servants to put his own silver cup in the mouth of Benjamin's sack. So at dawn the men got on their donkeys and left, but they hadn't got far when they were caught up and halted by Pharoah's steward who accused them of the theft of Pharoah's own silver cup which he used for divination. The men strongly denied any such thing, but the steward searched sack by sack, starting with the eldest, and of course the cup was in the last sack belonging to Benjamin. They were all devastated and returned to the city. When they faced Joseph they all thought they would now be taken into slavery but Joseph said that just Benjamin would be his slave. With this Judah pleaded with Joseph that he take his youngest brother's place as their return without Benjamin would kill their father.
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