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Jacob: Why did you do this to me? Why did you tell this man you had another brother?

Joseph’s Brothers: The man questioned us about every detail of ourselves and our relatives. He asked if our father was still alive and if we had another brother. What we told him was only in answer to all of his questions. How could we in any way know he would tell us to bring our brother down there?

Judah (to Israel, his father): Send the boy with me, and let’s be on our way. It’s the only way we’re going to live through this famine and not die of hunger—you, us, and all of our little ones.

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Israel(A) asked, “Why did you bring this trouble(B) on me by telling the man you had another brother?”

They replied, “The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. ‘Is your father still living?’(C) he asked us. ‘Do you have another brother?’(D) We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”(E)

Then Judah(F) said to Israel(G) his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.(H)

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