⁹ If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.

³² As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.

¹⁸ So they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of the house,

¹⁶ And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen.

³⁸ If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

³⁹ If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

⁴⁰ Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

⁴ If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

⁵ Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

¹¹ If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.