Instead, they blamed themselves and what they had done to Joseph for all the intrigue and drama that was happening to them in Egypt. But the brothers did not respond that way at all. I’m sure that Benjamin, as Joseph’s full brother, looked, acted and talked enough like Joseph that living around him was a constant reminder of Joseph and if they held that against Benjamin, Joseph was willing to concoct a scenario to take Benjamin away from them forever. They could discard him to save themselves if they hated Benjamin as much as they had hated Joseph when he was younger.
Why was Joseph toying with his brothers?Įverything Joseph did was to provoke jealously and to make it easy for the brothers confess any disdain they may have towards Benjamin. Joseph was trying to see if he could provoke the brothers to make snide comments, jokes or funny looks about the fact that the Viceroy of Egypt was favoring Benjamin over them. When a person is evenly mildly under the influence of alcohol, they tend to talk more freely about what they like, or what they don’t like. However, Joseph also gave the brothers, including Benjamin a lot of intoxicants and he was able to observe how they treated each other when they were under the influence of alcohol and their guard was down.
When Joseph gave Benjamin five times the provisions (Gen. He was the son of Jacob’s beloved wife and was not in any way complicit on Joseph’s disappearance/death and all the love and affection that Jacob could no longer give to Joseph was doted upon Benjamin. Jacob had some animosity and irritation towards his 10 sons, although he loved them. 41:1–44:17) that Jacob suspected his sons were complicit in Joseph’s death/disappearance. Medieval Jewish commentator Rashi pointed out about this part of the Torah reading מקץ Miketz (“from the end,” Gen. Why did Joseph consider Benjamin so important that he manipulated his brothers to bring Benjamin to Egypt and then to try to keep Benjamin in Egypt at the expense of his brothers? One reason may be to further fulfill the prophetic dreams that God had previously revealed to him when he was shown that all of his brothers would bow before him. Their father Jacob said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin all these things are against me.” Genesis 42:36 NASB Solomon’s splitting the baby & Judah’s sacrifice for his brothers.Legacy of those who say ‘yes’ to Heaven.Why was Joseph toying with his brothers?.
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