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HE famine continuing, and the supply of corn being exhausted, Jacob desired his sons to go again and buy them a little food. And soon the question of Benjamin going with them was revived. Judah, the eldest son, told his father that the man did solemnly protest unto them, that they should not see his face unless their brother was with them. Jacob at last consented, and having received their father's blessing, they departed and came into Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

The most interesting chapter in the history of Joseph now commences, and nothing is more beautiful, nothing more affecting, nothing more improving, than the cause and issue of this incomparable narrative, which is as simply natural as it is emblematically instructive. "When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he