“But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.”
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him. The withholding of Benjamin — the son of Rachel, now the only remaining son of the beloved wife — is Jacob's protective instinct replaying the dynamic that produced the favoritism of Genesis 37. The application: the protective love that withholds one child is the love that has not yet learned from what the previous protective love produced.
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