“And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.”
As he looked about and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son, he asked: is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about? And he said: God be gracious to you, my son. The sight of Benjamin — his full brother, Rachel's son — and the blessing — God be gracious to you, my son — is the most direct expression of Joseph's love for Benjamin in the narrative. The application: the blessing spoken over the person you love most, spoken in the character of a stranger, is the overflow of love that cannot be entirely contained.
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