The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore,
behold, also his blood is required.
GEN 42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake
unto them by an interpreter.
GEN 42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned
to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and
bound him before their eyes.
GEN 42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to
restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for
the way: and thus did he unto them.
GEN 42:26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed
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