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We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.`
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The Weight of a Lie
Commentators note the immense emotional weight behind the brothers' simple phrase, "one is not." This was their sanitized way of saying Joseph was dead, a lie they had lived with for twenty years. Albert Barnes suggests that uttering this phrase, even to a stranger, could not have been done without stirring feelings of guilt and remorse, while for Joseph, hearing it was a painful reminder of their betrayal.
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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
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