. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . e younglad, Ben-ja-min. And he put them in jail for threedays. And he said, Let one of you be bound, andkept in the guard-house, while the rest of you takeback the corn that you need. And they said thatthey would do this. Then he took Sim-e-on from their midst, and hadhim bound, and put in the guard-house. And he sent word to his men to fill their sackswith corn, and to put back the price in each sack, and Joseph and his Brethren, 9i to give them food to eat on the way. And thus didJo-seph do go
. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . e younglad, Ben-ja-min. And he put them in jail for threedays. And he said, Let one of you be bound, andkept in the guard-house, while the rest of you takeback the corn that you need. And they said thatthey would do this. Then he took Sim-e-on from their midst, and hadhim bound, and put in the guard-house. And he sent word to his men to fill their sackswith corn, and to put back the price in each sack, and Joseph and his Brethren, 9i to give them food to eat on the way. And thus didJo-seph do good to those who did ill to him. When Ja-cobs nine sons went home they told allthat had beensaid and doneto them, andthat the lord ofthe land badethem bringB e n - j a - m i ndown to E-gyptor he wouldthink they werespies, and theirlives would notbe safe. Ja-cobsaid,My son shallnot go downwith you, forhis broth-er isdead, and he isall I have harm should come to him on the way, I shoulddie of grief. When the corn they had brought from E-gyptwas all gone, Ja-cob told his sons to go down and. THE MEET-ING OF JO SEPH AND BEN-JA-MIN. 92 History of the Old Testament. buy more. And Ju-dah spoke up and said, Theman swore we should not see his face if Ben-ja-minwas not with us. If thou wilt send him with us wewill go; but if thou wilt not send him we will notgo down. Then Ja-cob said, If it must be so, take Ben-ja-min with you, and may God give you grace with thisman that he may send my two boys back to me. So the men took Ben-ja-min and went down toE-gypt, and stood face to face with Jo-seph. And they gave Jo-seph the gifts they had brought,and bowed down to the earth. And he asked howthey all were, and if their fath-er was well; and whenhe saw Ben-ja-min he said, Is this the young broth-erof whom you spoke ? And he said to the lad, Godbe good to thee, my son. And Jo-sephs heart was so full at sight of theboy, and he longed so to throw his arms round him,that he had to make haste
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