Passage

A silver cup in the youngest’s sack

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

²Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

Genesis 44:2World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

Joseph orders his steward to put the silver cup in the youngest brother’s sack, together with the grain money.

To understand

The steward follows the order before the men leave at dawn. Joseph then tells him to pursue them and ask why they repaid good with evil. The reader has already been told how the cup got there.

A question

How does knowing who placed the cup change your reading of the accusation that follows?