Genesis 44:5
Good News Translation
Why did you steal my master's silver cup? It is the one he drinks from, the one he uses for divination. You have committed a serious crime!'"

New Revised Standard Version
Is it not from this that my lord drinks? Does he not indeed use it for divination? You have done wrong in doing this.’”

Contemporary English Version
Not only does he drink from his cup, but he also uses it to learn about the future. You have done a terrible thing.'"

New American Bible
Is it not the very one from which my master drinks and which he uses for divination? What you have done is wrong.’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.

divineth.

Genesis 44:15 And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.

Genesis 30:27 Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.

Leviticus 19:26 You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe dreams.

1 Kings 20:33 The men took this for good luck: and in haste caught the word out of his mouth, and said: Thy brother Benadad. And he said to them: Go, and bring him to me. Then Benadad came out to him, and he lifted him up into his chariot.

2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divinations, and observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers, to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.

Context
Benjamin and the Silver Cup
4And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way: Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good? 5The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.6He did as he had commanded him. And having overtaken them, he spoke to them the same words.…
Cross References
Genesis 30:27
Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have learned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.

Genesis 44:6
He did as he had commanded him. And having overtaken them, he spoke to them the same words.

Genesis 44:15
And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.

Leviticus 19:26
You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe dreams.

Deuteronomy 18:10
Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that consulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there be any wizard,

Genesis 44:4
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