He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
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He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Then he searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack!
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He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
And he searched, `and' began at the eldest, and left off at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
And he searched, and began at the eldest and left at the yongest: and the cuppe was found in Beniamins sacke.
Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest and ending at the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.
and he searcheth -- at the eldest he hath begun, and at the youngest he hath completed -- and the cup is found in the bag of Benjamin;
and he searches—at the eldest he has begun, and at the youngest he has completed—and the cup is found in the bag of Benjamin;
The steward searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Then he searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack!
And he searched carefully: he began at the eldest, and ended at the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
The household supervisor searched the sacks, beginning with the oldest and working his way down to the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
And he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was in Benjamin's bag.
And he searched, beginning at the eldest, and leaving off at the youngest; and the goblet was found in Benjamin's sack.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַגָּבִ֔יעַ cup H1375 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַגָּבִ֔יעַ cup H1375 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
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וַיְחַפֵּ֕שׂ בַּגָּד֣וֹל הֵחֵ֔ל וּבַקָּטֹ֖ן כִּלָּ֑ה וַיִּמָּצֵא֙ הַגָּבִ֔יעַ בְּאַמְתַּ֖חַת בִּנְיָמִֽן
He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἐρευνάω δέ ἀπό ὁ πρεσβύτερος ἄρχω ἕως ἔρχομαι ἐπί ὁ νέος καί εὑρίσκω ὁ κόνδυ ἐν ὁ μάρσιππος ὁ βενιαμίν
And he searched, beginning from the oldest, until he came to the youngest; and he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וּבְלַשׁ בְּרַבָּא שָׁרֵי וּבִזְעֵירָא שֵׁצִי וְאִשְׁתְּכַח כַּלִּידָא בְּטוֹעֲנָא דְבִנְיָמִן
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וּפִשְׁפֵּשׁ בִּרְאוּבֵן שָׁרֵי וּבְבִנְיָמִין פָּסַק וְאִשְׁתַּכַּח אוֹגְבִין בְּטוֹנָא דְבִנְיָמִין
And he searched beginning with Reuben, and ending with Benjamin. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is gᵉbîyaʻ (“cup”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 44:12 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.
Radak
Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)
Radak on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash” (CC BY 4.0); “Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology” (CC BY 4.0); and “R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.