Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Is it not this which my lord will drink in it, and divining he will divine in it? ye were evil in which ye did.
New American Standard Bible
Is not this the one from which my lord drinks and which he indeed uses for
King James Version
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
Holman Bible
Isn’t this the cup that my master drinks from and uses for divination?
International Standard Version
Don't you have the cup that my master uses to drink from and also uses to practice divination? You're wrong to have done this.'"
A Conservative Version
Is not this that in which my lord drinks, and how he indeed divines? Ye have done evil in so doing.
American Standard Version
Is not this that in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
Amplified
Is this not my lord’s drinking cup and the one which he uses for divination? You have done [a great and unforgivable] wrong in doing this.’”
Bible in Basic English
Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done evil.
Darby Translation
Is not this it in which my lord drinks, and in which indeed he divines? Ye have done evil in what ye have done.
King James 2000
Is not this it from which my lord drinks, and by which indeed he divines? you have done evil in so doing.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Is this not that from which my master drinks? Now he himself certainly practices divination with it. You have done evil [in] what you have done.'"
Modern King James verseion
Is this not that in which my lord drinks, and by which indeed he divines? You have done evil in so doing.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Is that not the cup of which my lord drinketh, and doth he not prophesy therein? Ye have evil done that ye have done.'"
NET Bible
Doesn't my master drink from this cup and use it for divination? You have done wrong!'"
New Heart English Bible
Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"
The Emphasized Bible
Is not this that in which my lord drinketh, and whereby, he himself, doth divine? Ye have done evil in what ye have done.
Webster
Is not this the cup in which my lord drinketh, and by which indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
World English Bible
Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"
Youngs Literal Translation
Is not this that with which my lord drinketh? and he observeth diligently with it; ye have done evil in that which ye have done.'
Interlinear
Nachash
References
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 44:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph Tests His Brothers
4 They came forth out of the city, they were not far off, and Joseph said to him over his house, Arise, pursue after the men, and having overtaken them, and say to them, For what did ye requite evil for good? 5 Is it not this which my lord will drink in it, and divining he will divine in it? ye were evil in which ye did. 6 And he will overtake them, and will speak to them these words.
Cross References
Genesis 30:27
And Laban will say to him, If now I found grace in thine eyes, I prognosticated, and Jehovah will praise me because of thee.
Genesis 44:15
And Joseph will say to them, What this deed ye did? knew ye not that divining, a man shall divine such as I?
Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall not eat with the blood: ye shall not take auguries, and ye shall not practise magic.
2 Kings 21:6
And he caused his sons to pass through in fire, and he practiced magic, and took auguries, and made necromancy and a wizard spirit: he multiplied to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to irritate.
Deuteronomy 18:10-14
There shall not be found in thee him causing his son or his daughter to pass through in fire, divining divinations, practicing magic, and taking omens and a sorcerer,
1 Kings 20:33
And the men will prognosticate, and hasten, and urge whether it was from him, and they will say, Thy brother Benhadad. And he will say, Go take him. And Benhadad will come forth to him, and he will bring him up upon his chariot