“If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:”
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households. The modified terms — one stays, nine go — is the accommodation to the practical need (starving households) while maintaining the test condition (Benjamin must come). The application: the test that adapts to practical necessity without abandoning its essential requirement is the test that is both just and humane.
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