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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
GEN 42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning
our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought
us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
GEN 42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you,
saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore,
behold, also his blood is required.
GEN 42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake
unto them by an interpreter.
GEN 42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned
to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and
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