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16 Judah replied: “What can we say to my lord? How can we plead or how try to prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants’ guilt.[a] Here we are, then, the slaves of my lord—the rest of us no less than the one in whose possession the goblet was found.”

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  1. 44:16 Guilt: in trying to do away with Joseph when he was young.

16 “What can we say to my lord?(A)” Judah(B) replied. “What can we say? How can we prove our innocence?(C) God has uncovered your servants’(D) guilt. We are now my lord’s slaves(E)—we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup.(F)

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16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.

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