Genesis 44:7

7 qui responderunt quare sic loquitur dominus noster ut servi tui tantum flagitii commiserint

Genesis 44:7 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 44:7

And they said unto him, wherefore saith my lord these words?
&c.] One of them, in the name of the rest, perhaps Judah, made answer, as astonished at the charge laid against them, suggesting that there was not the least foundation for it, and were quite surprised to hear anything of this kind alleged against them: God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing;
expressing the utmost detestation of such a fact, as being what they could never be guilty of.

Genesis 44:7 In-Context

5 scyphum quem furati estis ipse est in quo bibit dominus meus et in quo augurari solet pessimam rem fecistis

6 fecit ille ut iusserat et adprehensis per ordinem locutus est

7 qui responderunt quare sic loquitur dominus noster ut servi tui tantum flagitii commiserint

8 pecuniam quam invenimus in summitate saccorum reportavimus ad te de terra Chanaan et quomodo consequens est ut furati simus de domo domini tui aurum vel argentum

9 apud quemcumque fuerit inventum servorum tuorum quod quaeris moriatur et nos servi erimus domini nostri