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If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison-house; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
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A Test, Not Revenge
Commentators agree that Joseph's plan to hold one brother captive was not an act of revenge. Instead, they see it as a deliberate test designed to bring his brothers to a state of genuine repentance for their past actions against him.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
שׁבר sheber — “fragment, crumb, hence, grain.” בר bar — “pure,” “winnowed,” hence, “corn” (grain).
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If you [be] true [men] As you say you are: let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison…
Joseph was hard on his brothers, not from a spirit of revenge, but to bring them to repentance. Not seeing his brother Benjamin, he suspected that …
