At length when he had furnished them forth with provisions (suitable) for them, he put the drinking cup into his brother's saddle-bag. Then shouted out a crier: "O ye (in) the caravan! behold! ye are thieves, without doubt!"

They said: "The penalty should be that he in whose saddle-bag it is found, should be held (as bondman) to atone for the (crime). Thus it is we punish the wrong-doers!"

And (Joseph) told his servants to put their stock-in-trade (with which they had bartered) into their saddle-bags, so they should know it only when they returned to their people, in order that they might come back.

Their covenants (covering) journeys by winter and summer,-

当地以他们所需的粮食供给他们的时候，他（使人）把一只酒杯放在他弟弟的粮袋里，然后一个传唤者传唤说：“队商啊！你们确是一伙小偷。”

他们说：“偷窃者应受的处罚，是在谁的粮袋里搜出酒杯来，就把谁当做奴仆。我们是这样惩罚不义者的。”

他对他的僮仆们说：“你们把他们的财物放在他们的粮袋里，他们回去的时候也许会认出这些财物，也许会再来一趟。”

因为在冬季和夏季的旅行中保护他们,