They said while they were facing them: What is it that you miss? (71)

They said: We miss the king's drinking cup, and he who shall bring it shall have a camel-load and I am responsible for it (72)

They said: By Allah! you know for certain that we have not come to make mischief in the land, and we are not thieves (73)

They said: But what shall be the requital of this, if you are liars? (74)

They said: The requital of this is that the person in whose bag it is found shall himself be (held for) the satisfaction thereof; thus do we punish the wrongdoers (75)

So he began with their sacks before the sack of his brother, then he brought it out from his brother's sack. Thus did We plan for the sake of Yusuf; it was not (lawful) that he should take his brother under the king's law unless Allah pleased; We raise the degrees of whomsoever We please, and above every one possessed of knowledge is the All-knowing one (76)

They said: If he steal, a brother of his did indeed steal before; but Yusuf kept it secret in his heart and did not disclose it to them. He said: You are in an evil condition and Allah knows best what you state (77)

They said: O chief! he has a father, a very old man, therefore retain one of us in his stead; surely we see you to be of the doers of good (78)

He said: Allah protect us that we should seize other than him with whom we found our property, for then most surely we would be unjust (79)

Then when they despaired of him, they retired, conferring privately together. The eldest of them said: Do you not know that your father took from you a covenant in Allah's name, and how you fell short of your duty with respect to Yusuf before? Therefore I will by no means depart from this land until my father permits me or Allah decides for me, and He is the best of the judges: (80)