7They said to him, |Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
7They said to him, |Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
4 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, |Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
5 Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'|
6 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
7 They said to him, |Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
9 With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants.|
44:7And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
44:7But they said to him, "Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do anything like that!
44:7And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy servants had committed so heinous a fact?
44:7And they said unto him, Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing.
44:7And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from thy servants to do such a thing!
44:7And they said unto him, Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these? God forbid that thy servants should do such a thing.
44:7And they said to him, Why saith my lord these words? Far be it from us that thy servants should do according to this thing:
44:7and they say unto him, 'Why doth my lord speak according to these words? far be it from thy servants to do according to this word;
44:7And they said to him, Why said my lord these words? God forbid that your servants should do according to this thing: