“And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.”
He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes. The weeping of Joseph — the first of five recorded instances of Joseph weeping in the narrative — is the emotional rupture of the person hearing, for the first time, what his brothers experienced when they sold him. The binding of Simeon is the continuation of the test. The application: the person who tests others can be genuinely moved by what the testing reveals. Joseph weeps and continues the test simultaneously.
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