And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
He overtook them, and ... spake ... these ... words. The intelligence must have come upon them like a thunderbolt; and one of their most predominant feelings must have been the humiliating and galling sense of being made so often objects of suspicion. Protesting their innocence, they invited a search. The challenge was accepted. Beginning with the oldest, every sack was examined; and the cup being found in Benjamin's sack, they all returned with an indescribable agony of mind to the house of the governor, throwing themselves at his feet, with the remarkable confession: "God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants!"