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A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART XXI
"We, the nine sons of Jacob, have gathered in our father's tent... And we realised that we owed our father a more thorough explanation as to why we have to bring Benjamin with us when we go back to Egypt.... We, therefore, began to tell him in detail our conversation with the "Egytian" official from whom we had bought grain....We shared with our father that the official had asked very specific questions about our family situation... He has asked us if our father was still alive... He had asked us as well if we had another brother... Of course, we had told him that, yes, we still have another brother....He is staying at home with our father.... We did not feel we could refuse to answer him....After all, he is the official in charge of the food distribution... And we are "nobodies"... We never expected him to demand that we bring our youngest brother with us the next time we go to Egypt...His request.... Or rather his demand....Does not make sense to us... Nevertheless, we know that Benjamin needs to be with us if we are going to be able to buy more grain for our families....Our father needs to recognise the seriousness of the matter... And release Benjamin to us... Otherwise our families may end up starving to death... He would not want that to happen."...Please read the typed out attachent when Jacob's nine sons try to explain to him why they ended up sharing with the "Egyptian" official details of their family situation....
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART XXI
The nine sons of Jacob, who have gathered in his tent in Canaan, look at their father after he has rebuked them for telling the "Egyptian" official about their youngest brother. They realise it is time to give their father more specific details of that conversation between the official and them which took place some time ago now as you can read in Genesis 43:7
They replied, "The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. "Is your father still living?" he asked us. "Do you have another brother?" We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, "Bring your brother down here?"
The brothers had not been sure why the "Egyptian" official was so keen to learn all these details of their family and they had not felt they were in a position to refuse to answer these questions.
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