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The guards immediately agreed.
When the packs were opened,
there, glistening in the sun, nestled
a precious cup. It was Binyamin’s
bag!
This was not the cup they were
actually looking for, but it was a sim-
ilar one, a very expensive cup. They
recognised it to be the prime minis-
ters cup -
Nabi
Yusuf’s [a] cup.
The brothers were terrified and
ashamed, but they showed no sur-
prise. They boldly said, “
If Binyamin
stole, we can well understand
because a brother of his stole
before.
” They believed that Yusuf
[a] had stolen the heart of their
father so many years before.
Nabi
Yusuf [a] , who had by now
reached the others, heard this lie.
Little did they realize that the king’s
minister they were addressing was