Genesis 44:4
Good News Translation
When they had gone only a short distance from the city, Joseph said to the servant in charge of his house, "Hurry after those men. When you catch up with them, ask them, 'Why have you paid back evil for good?

New Revised Standard Version
When they had gone only a short distance from the city, Joseph said to his steward, “Go, follow after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you returned evil for good? Why have you stolen my silver cup?

Contemporary English Version
But they had not gone far from the city when Joseph told the servant, "Go after those men! When you catch them, say, 'My master has been good to you. So why have you stolen his silver cup?

New American Bible
They had not gone far out of the city when Joseph said to his steward: “Go at once after the men! When you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why did you repay good with evil? Why did you steal my silver goblet?

Douay-Rheims Bible
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?

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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?

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Deuteronomy 2:16 And after all the fighting men were dead,

Wherefore.

1 Samuel 24:17 And he said to David: Thou art more just than I: for thou hast done good to me, and I have rewarded thee with evil.

2 Chronicles 20:11 Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession which thou hast delivered to us.

Psalm 35:12 They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.

Psalm 109:5 And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.

Proverbs 17:13 He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

John 10:32 Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?

Context
Benjamin and the Silver Cup
3And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses. 4And 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?5The 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.…
Cross References
Genesis 44:3
And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses.

Genesis 44:13
Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town.

Genesis 44:3
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