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HE history of Joseph under this view we need not pursue much further. Our object has been to trace it chiefly with a view to exhibit before the young reader the purity and beauty of his character. The fame of the circumstance of Joseph's brethren having come, was heard in Pharaoh's house, and the king joined with his favourite deputy or viceroy, to urge Jacob and all his house to come down and make his abode in Egypt. The brethren were accordingly sent away with waggons to carry down the whole household. Joseph, in dismissing them, gave them this brotherly and useful advice—"See that ye fall not out by the way." This was a lesson which they may have needed, as they were likely to accuse one another for the more active share some of them had taken in the conspiracy against their younger brother. And it is a lesson which we all may learn, and