Genesis Chapter 44 is the Ultimate Test

As Joseph plotted the crime Benjamin committed, to further test his brothers’ character, Judah’s leadership emerges.

A lesson that one must not give up, let alone turn away from G-d of not having lived his life in obedience to G-d’s commands.

G-d’s mercy, compassion and abundant kindness surpassed those of men.

A clear encouragement to all, that it is never too late to start a new life. A life in obedience to G-d’s teachings, instructions, laws, ordinances, statutes, precepts, decrees and commandments.

“The Final Test”
“Judah Speaks For All”

And my goblet – the silver goblet – place in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack along with the money of his purchase.” And he followed Joseph’s word exactly.
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… “Why do you repay evil for good?
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… You have done evil in how you acted!’”
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He searched; he began with the oldest and ended with the youngest; and the goblet was found in Benjamin’s sack.
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Joseph said to them, “What is this deed that you have done? …
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It will happen that when he sees the youth is missing he will die, and your servants will have brought down the hoariness of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.
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For your servant took responsibility for the youth from my father saying, “If I do not bring him back to you then I will have sinned to my father for all time.
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Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the youth as a servant to my lord, and let the youth go up with his brothers.
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1 Then he commanded the overseer of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money into the mouth of his sack.
2 And my goblet, the silver goblet, put into the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his purchase money.” And he did according to Joseph’s word, which he had spoken.
3 The morning became light, and the men were sent [on their way] they and their donkeys.
4 They had exited the city, but had not gone far when Joseph said to the overseer of his house, “Get up, pursue the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
5 Is not this the one my master drinks from? Why, he even divines with it! You have done evil by the way you have acted.’ “
6 He overtook them, and he said these words to them.
7 And they said to him, “Why should my master say such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do a thing like this!
8 Behold, the money we found in the mouth of our sacks we returned to you from the land of Canaan; so how could we steal from your master’s house silver or gold?
9 Whichever one of your servants with whom it is found shall die, and also we will be slaves to my master.”
10 And he said, “Now indeed, so it is as you have spoken. [But] the one with whom it is found shall be my slave, and you shall be cleared.”
11 So they hastened, and each one lowered his sack to the ground, and each one opened his sack.
12 He searched; he started with the eldest and finished with the youngest, and the goblet was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13 So they rent their garments, and each one loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.
14 And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there, and they fell before him upon the ground.
15 And Joseph said to them, “What is this deed that you have committed? Don’t you know that a person like me practices divination?”
16 And Judah said, “What shall we say to my master? What shall we speak, and how shall we exonerate ourselves? God has found your servants’ iniquity, behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we and the one in whose possession the goblet has been found.”
17 But he said, “Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose possession the goblet was found he shall be my slave, but as for you go up in peace to your father.”
18 Then Judah approached him and said, “Please, my lord, let now your servant speak something into my lord’s ears, and let not your wrath be kindled against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.
19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’
20 And we said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a young child of his old age, and his brother is dead, and he is left alone of his mother, and his father loves him.’
21 And you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, and I will set my eye[s] upon him.’
22 And we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he leaves his father, he will die.’
23 And you said to your servants, ‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’
24 And it came to pass when we went up to your servant, my father, and we told him the words of my lord,
25 that our father said, ‘Go back, buy us a little food.’
26 But we said, ‘We cannot go down; [only] if our youngest brother is with us will we go down, for we cannot see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’
27 And your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two [children].
28 The one went away from me, and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces, and I have not seen him since.”
29 Now if you take this one too away from me, and misfortune befalls him, you will bring down my hoary head in misery to the grave.’
30 And now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us [since] his soul is attached to his (the boy’s) soul,
31 it will come to pass, when he sees that the boy is gone, he will die, and your servants will have brought down the hoary head of your servant, our father, in grief to the grave.
32 For your servant assumed responsibility for the boy from my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him to you, I will have sinned against my father forever.’
33 So now, please let your servant stay instead of the boy as a slave to my lord, and may the boy go up with his brothers.
34 For how will I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? Let me not see the misery that will befall my father!”