Genesis 44:9
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New International Version (©2011)
If any of your servants is found to have it, he will die; and the rest of us will become my lord's slaves."

New Living Translation (©2007)
If you find his cup with any one of us, let that man die. And all the rest of us, my lord, will be your slaves."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord’s servants.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
If any of us is found to have it, he must die, and we also will become my lord's slaves."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Go ahead and execute whichever one of your servants is discovered to have it, and we'll remain as your master's slaves."

NET Bible (©2006)
If one of us has it, he will die, and the rest of us will become my lord's slaves!"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If one of us has it, he will die, and the rest of us will become your slaves."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
With whomever of your servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves.

American King James Version
With whomsoever of your servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves.

American Standard Version
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou seekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of my lord.

Darby Bible Translation
With whomsoever of thy servants it is found, let him die; and we also will be my lord's bondmen.

English Revised Version
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.

Webster's Bible Translation
With whom soever of thy servants it shall be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bond-men.

World English Bible
With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."

Young's Literal Translation
with whomsoever of thy servants it is found, he hath died, and we also are to my lord for servants.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

44:1-17 Joseph tried how his brethren felt towards Benjamin. Had they envied and hated the other son of Rachel as they had hated him, and if they had the same want of feeling towards their father Jacob as heretofore, they would now have shown it. When the cup was found upon Benjamin, they would have a pretext for leaving him to be a slave. But we cannot judge what men are now, by what they have been formerly; nor what they will do, by what they have done. The steward charged them with being ungrateful, rewarding evil for good; with folly, in taking away the cup of daily use, which would soon be missed, and diligent search made for it; for so it may be read, Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, as having a particular fondness for it, and for which he would search thoroughly? Or, By which, leaving it carelessly at your table, he would make trial whether you were honest men or not? They throw themselves upon Joseph's mercy, and acknowledge the righteousness of God, perhaps thinking of the injury they had formerly done to Joseph, for which they thought God was now reckoning with them. Even in afflictions wherein we believe ourselves wronged by men, we must own that God is righteous, and finds out our sin.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

With whomsoever of thy servants it be found,.... The silver cup:

both let him die; which was rashly said, since they might have thought the cup might be put in one of their sacks unknown to them, as their money had been before; and besides, death was a punishment too severe for such a crime, and therefore is by the steward himself moderated; but this they said the more strongly to express their innocence:

and we also will be my lord's bondmen; his servants, as long as they lived: this was likewise carrying the matter too far, and exceeding all bounds of justice, which could only require satisfaction of the offender.

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Benjamin and the Silver Cup
…8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of your lord's house silver or gold? 9With whomsoever of your servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves. 10And he said, Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and you shall be blameless. …

Genesis 31:32 But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.
Genesis 44:10 "Very well, then," he said, "let it be as you say. Whoever is found to have it will become my slave; the rest of you will be free from blame."
Genesis 44:16 "What can we say to my lord?" Judah replied. "What can we say? How can we prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants' guilt. We are now my lord's slaves--we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup."