Genesis 43:18-20

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ They were worried when they were brought into Joseph’s house and they said, “He brought us here because of the money that was placed back in our sacks the other time. They are going to fall upon us and make us slaves and take our donkeys as well.”

¹⁹ So they approached Joseph’s head steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house ²⁰ saying, “My lord, we came one other time to buy provisions.