Sep
10
Joseph Test His Brothers.
Joseph wants to know if his 10 older brothers are still unkind. So he says: ‘You are spies. You have come to find where our country is weak.’ ‘No, we are not,’ they say. ‘We are honest men. We are all brothers. We were 12. But one brother is no more, and the youngest is home with our father’.
Joseph pretends not to believe them. He keeps the brother named Simeon in prison, and lets the others take food and go home. But he tells them: When you come back, you must bring your youngest brother with you.
When they return home to Canaan, the brothers tell their father Jacob everything that happened. Jacob is very sad. ‘Joseph is no more and now Simeon is no more’ he cries. ‘I will not let you take my younger son Benjamin’. But when the food begins to run out, Jacob has to let his youngest son go with them.
When Joseph sees his brothers coming he was very happy at the same time he also wants to test his brothers. What he did was he gets his servants to fill up all their bags with food and at the same time he also put his special silver cup into Benjamin’s bag.
After they leave and gone some distance on the road, Joseph send his servant after them. The servant say, “Why have you stolen our master’s silver cup?’ All the brother denies any the servant started to search through all their bags. Finally the servant finds the cup from Benjamin’s bag. The servant say, “The rest of you can go except Benjamin must follow us.”
What do you think the other 10 brother would have do now?
They all return with Benjamin to Joseph’s house, and Judah speaks up, “We can’t go back without my younger brother, my father loves him so much. Please keep me as your slave and please let my youngest brother go home”.
Joseph noticed that his brothers had changed and they are not unkind anymore. At that moment Joseph can’t control his feelings. Immediately he ask his servant to leave the rooms and he started to cry. All the other brothers were surprised and they do not know Joseph is crying. Finally he introduced himself and all his brothers were speechless. Joseph Throws his arms around his brothers and hugs and kisses them all.
When Pharaoh heard this news, he lets all his brothers to stay in Egypt and Jacob’s whole families shifted to Egypt. They were called Israelities and they became a God’s special people.