At this, they tore their clothes. Then they all loaded their donkeys and returned to the city. The tearing of clothes is the grief of people who know the consequence — and who do not, apparently, consider abandoning Benjamin to return home. They all return. The application: the all in they all loaded their donkeys and returned to the city is the first evidence that the brothers are different men than they were twenty-two years ago. No one takes the free pass and goes home.

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