“And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.”
And we answered: we have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him. The description of Benjamin — only one of his mother's sons left, his father loves him — is Judah's most significant disclosure: his father loves Benjamin the way his father loved Joseph. The application: the acknowledgment that the beloved son's loss would devastate the father is the acknowledgment that drives the offer that follows.
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