Genesis 44:12
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Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest, and ending at the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.

Genesis 44:2
And in the mouth of the younger's sack put my silver cup, and the price which he gave for the wheat. And it was so done.

Genesis 44:11
Then they speedily took down their sacks to the ground, and every man opened his sack.

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Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest, and ending at the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.

began.

Genesis 43:33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his age. And they wondered very much;

and the cup.

Genesis 44:26-32 And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go down with us, we will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare not see the man's face. . . .

Genesis 42:36-38 Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me. . . .

Genesis 43:14 And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me I shall be desolate without children.

Context
Benjamin and the Silver Cup
11Then they speedily took down their sacks to the ground, and every man opened his sack. 12Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest, and ending at the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.13Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town.…
Lexicon
The steward searched,
וַיְחַפֵּ֕שׂ (way·ḥap·pêś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2664: To seek, to conceal oneself, mask

beginning
הֵחֵ֔ל (hê·ḥêl)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play

with the oldest
בַּגָּד֣וֹל (bag·gā·ḏō·wl)
Preposition-b, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1419: Great, older, insolent

and ending
כִּלָּ֑ה (kil·lāh)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

with the youngest—
וּבַקָּטֹ֖ן (ū·ḇaq·qā·ṭōn)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6996: Small, young, unimportant

and the cup
הַגָּבִ֔יעַ (hag·gā·ḇî·a‘)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1375: A goblet, the calyx of a, flower

was found
וַיִּמָּצֵא֙ (way·yim·mā·ṣê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

in Benjamin’s
בִּנְיָמִֽן׃ (bin·yā·min)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1144: Benjamin -- 'son of the right hand', youngest son of Jacob, also the name of two other Israelites

sack.
בְּאַמְתַּ֖חַת (bə·’am·ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 572: Something expansive, a bag


Additional Translations
The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.And he searched, and began at the oldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left off at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

And he searched, beginning from the eldest, until he came to the youngest; and he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.

And he searched carefully: he began at the eldest, and ended at the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

and he searcheth -- at the eldest he hath begun, and at the youngest he hath completed -- and the cup is found in the bag of Benjamin;
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