¹⁵ “How could you do such a thing?” Joseph asked them. “Did you not know that such a man as I could discern by divination what happened?” ¹⁶ Judah replied: “What can we say to my lord? How can we plead or how try to prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants’ guilt.^[a] Here we are, then, the slaves of my lord—the rest of us no less than the one in whose possession the goblet was found.” ¹⁷ Joseph said, “Far be it from me to act thus! Only the one in whose possession the goblet was found shall become my slave; the rest of you may go back unharmed to your father.”