Q&A for Genesis 44

Chapter
Question/Answer 1
Question 1

1. What does Joseph tell his steward to do?

Answer 1

v 1 and 2 ... “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth. 2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” ...

Question/Answer 2
Question 2

2. What did Judah tell Joseph that God had found out about them?

Answer 2

v 16 ... “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

Question/Answer 3
Question 3

3. What does Judah offer to do so that Benjamin can return to his father and why does he make the offer?

Answer 3

v 33 and 34 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers. 34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”