C. THE RETURN TO JACOB

Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with grain, and to restore

every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way:

and thus was it done unto them.

And they laded their asses with their grain and departed thence. And as

one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging

place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his

sack. And he said unto his brethren, "My money is restored; and, lo, it

is even in my sack." And their heart failed them, and they turned

trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God hath done unto

us?"

And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told

him all that had befallen them. And it came to pass as they emptied

their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack;

and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were

afraid.

And Jacob their father said unto them, "Me have ye bereaved of my

children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin

away: all these things are against me."

And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, "Slay my two sons, if I bring

him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee

again."

And he said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is

dead, and he only is left: if mischief befall him by the way in the

which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the

grave."

=Sec.26. Joseph and Benjamin= (Gen. 43)

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