They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter. The detail that Joseph used an interpreter — and therefore understood the brothers' conversation — is the crucial element that makes the brothers' self-disclosure significant. They are confessing without knowing the person they wronged is present and listening. The application: the confession made in what seems like privacy, to each other rather than to the wronged party, is still the beginning of genuine repentance.

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