Genesis 44:20 (KJV)

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And we said unto my lord We have a father an old man and a child of his old age a little one and his brother is dead and he alone is left of his mother and his father loveth him

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we said.Every word in this verse is simplicity and pathos itself. No man of the least sensibility can read it without great emotion. Indeed the whole speech is exquisitely beautiful, and perhaps the most complete pattern of genuine natural eloquence extant in any language. When we read this generous speech, we forgive Judah all the past, and cannot refuse to say, "Thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise." Ge 49:8

a child. Ge 35:18 Ge 37:3 Ge 37:19 Ge 43:7 Ge 43:8 Ge 46:21

and his brother. Ge 37:33-35 Ge 42:36 Ge 42:38

he alone. Ge 44:27-29 Lu 7:12

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