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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 42:21

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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42:21-23 Clearly we are being punished: The brothers sensed that having to bring Benjamin back to Egypt against their father’s wishes was God’s punishment for their having sold Joseph to the traders. The sense of divine retribution began to awaken feelings of remorse that Joseph’s cries for mercy and their father’s tears (37:34-35) had failed to arouse.
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