Brotherly Love of Judah

Two of the seven years of famine had gone by. There was a dirth of corn in Canaan. Also Jacob's granary was perhaps nearly empty. But there was corn in Egypt. It is evident that Jacob's sons dreaded a journey to this country. None of them suggested that the trip be made. They would look at one an­other and say nothing. There was a reason for their silence. Egypt was the country that had received their brother, whom they had sold to the merchants some twelve years previous. Small wonder that at...