So Jacob’s family ate all of the corn which his sons had brought back from Egypt.
After they had eaten the food, Jacob asked his sons to go back to Egypt to get more. Judah reminded Jacob that the guy who had given them corn had told them not to come back without their youngest brother. Hearing this, Jacob became irate, and asked his sons why they were stupid enough to have told this guy that they had another brother. The brothers protested that the guy had seemed trustworthy enough, and asked them a bunch of questions about their family, which they answered honestly, and how were they supposed to know the dude was going to ask them to bring their other brother over?
Judah volunteered to be responsible for Benjamin, swearing that if anything should happen to Benjamin, it would be totally his (Judah’s) fault. This was a step down from Reuben’s offer to let Jacob kill his two sons, but nevertheless Jacob relented because he was starving.
So, Jacob hatched a plan by which the brothers would return to Egypt with twice the money they needed to buy more corn. He was worried that the money had been left in his sons’ bags by accident, and the Egyptian would be pissed that they had left without paying for their corn. He also gave them some honey, spices, myrrh, nuts, and almonds, which they apparently had plenty of despite being in a major famine, to give to the Egyptian grain merchant as a bribe.
So Jacob’s sons went down to Egypt with their gifts. Joseph, seeing that they had brought Benjamin with them, ordered a feast prepared. Joseph had his servants bring his brothers into his house. Intimidated, the brothers began trying to explain what happened with the money, and trying to give it back before they were beheaded for stealing from Egypt. Joseph’s steward, however, told them it was no big deal, and gave them water and washed their feet and fed their asses. Also, he gave some food to their donkeys.
At this point, Joseph came in and asked the brothers a bunch of questions about their father. Seeing nothing unusual in this, they answered the questions honestly. Joseph then looked at Benjamin, and "his bowels did yearn upon his brother". This, we can only assume, means that Joseph was tempted to hold his brother down and fart on him, just as he had done when they were kids.
Fighting back this temptation, Joseph went off to a corner and once again cried like a little girl. After he had composed himself, he went back and ordered food for his brothers, and ordered food in a separate room for the Egyptian members of his house. Because the Egyptians were a bunch of racists who refused to eat with those dirty Hebrews. So as we can see, Egyptian-Hebrew relations were less than cordial at the time, despite the fact that Pharaoh had allowed his entire kingdom to be run by a Hebrew.
Anyway, Joseph gave Benjamin five times more food than anyone else, and everyone had a grand old time.
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