Genesis 44:15
Good News Translation
and Joseph said, "What have you done? Didn't you know that a man in my position could find you out by practicing divination?"

New Revised Standard Version
Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that one such as I can practice divination?”

Contemporary English Version
who asked them, "What have you done? Didn't you know I could find out?"

New American Bible
“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?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.

What.

Genesis 44:4,5 And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way: Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good? . . .

Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

Genesis 4:10 And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.

wot ye not.

Genesis 21:26 And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.

Genesis 39:8 But he in no wise consenting to that wicked act said to her: Behold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what he hath in his own house:

Exodus 32:1 And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.

divine.

Genesis 44:5 The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.

Context
Benjamin and the Silver Cup
14And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph (for he was not yet gone out of the place) and they all together fell down before him on the ground. 15And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.16And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord? or what shall we say, or be able justly to allege? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are all bondmen to my lord, both we, and he with whom the cup was found.…
Cross References
Genesis 44:5
The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.

Genesis 44:16
And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord? or what shall we say, or be able justly to allege? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are all bondmen to my lord, both we, and he with whom the cup was found.

Genesis 44:14
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