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Genesis 44:4
Genesis 44:4 is verse 4 of Genesis chapter 44, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
LXX includes Why have you stolen my silver cup?
King James Version
And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
World English Bible
When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?
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Genesis 44:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.
3 At daybreak, the men were sent on their way with their donkeys.
4 They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
5 Is this not the cup my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wicked!’”
6 When the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 2:16Now when all the fighting men among the people had died,
1 Samuel 24:17and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.
2 Chronicles 20:11See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession that You gave us as an inheritance.
Psalms 35:12They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.
Psalms 109:5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Proverbs 17:13If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.
John 10:32But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”