“And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.”
The men had been seated before him in the order of their ages, from the firstborn to the youngest; and they looked at each other in astonishment. The seating in birth order is the impossible detail that should not be knowable by a stranger — how would the governor know the order of birth? The brothers' astonishment is the beginning of the dawning recognition that something extraordinary is happening. The application: the impossible knowledge that a stranger displays is the first crack in the concealment. The brothers do not yet draw the conclusion, but they are astonished.
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