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GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LIII
"I, Judah continued to speak to the official in charge of the grain distribution here in Egypt.... We, my ten brothers and I, have returned to him after his special silver cup was found in the sack of our youngest brother Benjamin...The official has told us ten of us can go home...Only Benjamin is to stay behind as his slave...But that must not happen... I must tell him in detail the last conversation we had with our father when he reminded us of the loss of his one son... He will, therefore, not be able to bear the loss of this son.... I must as well tell the official that I guaranteed the return of my youngest brother to our father....The official must understand that I, therefore, cannot go back home without him... The loss of this son will mean the death of our father... I cannot bear the thought of that happening....I will offer myself as a slave instead of my youngest brother... Surely, the official will be willing to let me stay as his slave... That way my youngest brother can return home with his other brothers....And I will save the life of my aged father."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Judah continues his plea before the "Egyptian" officail to let his youngst brother Benjamin go back home to Canaan with his brothers....
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LIII
Judah, one of the eleven sons of Jacob, continues to speak to the official in charge of the grain distribution in Egypt by sharing with him that he had told his father he would guarantee the return of his youngest son as you can read in Genesis 44:25-34
Then our father said, "Go back and buy a little more food." But we said, "We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go. We cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us." Your servant my father said to us, "You know that my wife bore me two sons. One of them went away from me, and I said, "He has surely been torn to pieces. And I have not seen him since. If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my grey head down to the grave in misery." "So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy's life, sees that the boy isn't there, he will die. Your servants will bring the grey head of our father down to the grave in sorrow. Your servant guaranteed the boy's safety to my father. I said, "If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life." Now then please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers. How can I go back to my father is the boy is not with me?No! Do not let me see the misery that would come upon my father."
Judah ends his plea to the "Egyptian" official by offering to take the place of his youngest brother Benjamin as slave to the official.
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