the cup in the mouth of the sack of Benjamin.  Then they all for sorrow cut and rent their clothes, and laded their asses again, and returned all into the town again.  Then Judah entered first with his brethren unto Joseph and all they together fell down platte to the ground.  To whom Joseph said:  Why have ye done thus?  Know not ye that there is no man like to me in the science of knowledge?  To whom Judah answered:  What shall we answer to thee, my lord; or what shall we speak or rightfully desire?  God hath found and remembered the iniquity of us thy servants, for we be all thy servants, yea, we and he at whom the cup was found.  Joseph answered:  God forbid that I should so do, whosoever stole the cup shall be my servant, and go ye your way, for ye shall be free and go to your father.  Then Judah approached near him and spake with a hardy cheer to him and said:  I beseech thee my lord to hear me thy servant that I may say to thine audience a word, and that thou wilt not be wroth to thy servant.  Thou art next to Pharaoh; my lord, thou demandedst first of us thy servants:  Have ye a father or brother?  And we answered to thee, my lord:  Our father is an old man and we have a brother a young child which was born to him in his old age, whose brother of the same mother is dead, and he is an only son whom the father loveth tenderly.  Thou saidst to us thy servants:  Bring him hither to me that I may see.  We told to thee my lord for truth:  our father may not forego the child, if he forego him certainly he shall die.  And thou saidst to us, thy servants:  But if ye bring him not with you, ye shall no more see my visage.  Then when we came to our father and told him all these things, and our father bade us to return and buy more corn.  To whom we said:  We may not go thither but if our youngest brother go with us, for if he be absent we dare not approach, ne come to the presence of the man; and he answered to us:  Ye know well that my wife brought to me forth but two sons, that one went out, and ye said that wild beasts had devoured him, and yet I heard never of him ne he appeared not.  If now ye should take this my son and anything happened to him in the way ye should bring my hoar hair with sorrow to hell.  Therefore if I should come home to my father and bring not the child with me, sith the soul and health of my father dependeth of this child, and see that he is not come with us, he shall die and we thy servants should lead his old age with wailing and sorrow to hell.  I myself shall be thy proper servant which have received him upon my faith and have promised for him, saying to my father:  If I bring him not again I shall be guilty of the sin to my father ever after.  I shall abide and continue thy servant for the child in the ministry and service of thee my lord.  I may not depart, the child being absent, lest I be witness of the sorrow that my father shall take.  Wherefore I beseech thee to suffer this child to go to his father and receive me into thy service.  Thus said Judah, with much more; as Josephus, Antiquitatum, rehearseth more piteously, and saith moreover that the cause why he did do hide the cup in Benjamin’s sack, was to know whether they loved Benjamin or hated him as they did him, what time they sold him to the Ishmaelites.