Jubilees 43:1-24

¹And he did as Joseph had told him, and filled all their sacks with food for them, and put their money in their sacks, and put the cup in Benjamin's sack.

²Early in the morning they departed, and it came to pass that, when they had gone from there, Joseph said to the steward of his house: 'Pursue them, run and seize them, saying, "You have repaid me evil for good; you have stolen from me the silver cup out of which my lord drinks." And bring back to me their youngest brother, and fetch him quickly before I go forth to my seat of judgment.'

³And he ran after them and spoke to them according to these words.

⁴And they said to him: 'God forbid that your servants should do this thing, and steal any vessel from the house of your lord. The money also which we found in our sacks the first time, we your servants brought back from the land of Canaan. How then should we steal any vessel? Here we are with our sacks—search them, and wherever you find the cup in the sack of any man among us, let him be slain, and we and our donkeys will serve your lord.'

⁵And he said to them: 'Not so; the man with whom I find it, him only shall I take as a servant, and you shall return in peace to your house.'

⁶And as he was searching in their vessels, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest, it was found in Benjamin's sack.

⁷And they tore their garments, and loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city and came to the house of Joseph, and they all bowed themselves on their faces to the ground before him.

⁸And Joseph said to them: 'You have done evil.' And they said: 'What shall we say and how shall we defend ourselves? Our lord has discovered the transgression of his servants; behold, we are the servants of our lord, and our donkeys also.'

⁹And Joseph said to them: 'I too fear the Lord; as for you, go to your homes and let your brother be my servant, for you have done evil. Do you not know that a man delights in his cup as I do with this cup? And yet you have stolen it from me.'

¹⁰And Judah said: 'O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ear. Two brothers did your servant's mother bear to our father: one went away and was lost, and has not been found, and he alone is left of his mother, and your servant our father loves him, and his life also is bound up with the life of this lad.'

¹¹'And it will come to pass, when we go to your servant our father, and the lad is not with us, that he will die, and we shall bring down our father with sorrow to death.'

¹²'Now rather let me, your servant, remain instead of the boy as a bondsman to my lord, and let the lad go with his brothers, for I became surety for him at the hand of your servant our father, and if I do not bring him back, your servant will bear the blame to our father forever.'

¹³And Joseph saw that they were all in agreement in goodness with one another, and he could not restrain himself, and he told them that he was Joseph.

¹⁴And he conversed with them in the Hebrew tongue and fell on their necks and wept.

¹⁵But they did not recognize him and they began to weep.

¹⁶And he said to them: 'Do not weep over me, but hurry and bring my father to me; and you see that it is my mouth that speaks and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see.'

¹⁷'For behold, this is the second year of the famine, and there are still five years without harvest or fruit of trees or plowing.'

¹⁸'Come down quickly, you and your households, so that you do not perish through the famine, and do not be grieved for your possessions, for the Lord sent me before you to set things in order that many people might live.'

¹⁹'And tell my father that I am still alive, and behold, you see that the Lord has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and ruler over his house and over all the land of Egypt.'

²⁰'And tell my father of all my glory, and all the riches and glory that the Lord has given me.'

²¹And by the command of the mouth of Pharaoh he gave them chariots and provisions for the way, and he gave them all many-colored garments and silver.

²²And to their father he sent garments and silver and ten donkeys which carried grain, and he sent them away.

²³And they went up and told their father that Joseph was alive, and was measuring out grain to all the nations of the earth, and that he was ruler over all the land of Egypt.

²⁴And their father did not believe it, for he was beside himself in his mind; but when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent, the life of his spirit revived, and he said: 'It is enough for me if Joseph lives; I will go down and see him before I die.'