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28 The brothers replied, ‘Your servant, our father, is still alive. And he is well.’ They bent down to the ground again, to respect Joseph.

29 Then Joseph saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son.[a] Joseph asked, ‘Is this your youngest brother? Is he the one that you told me about?’ Joseph said to Benjamin, ‘I pray that God will bless you, my son.’ 30 Joseph loved Benjamin very much. He quickly went out of the room because he wanted to weep. Joseph went into his own room and he wept there.

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  1. 43:29 Only Joseph and Benjamin were sons of Rachel. Jacob's other wives had given birth to the other brothers.