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A worldwide famine rages on and Jacob sends all of his sons but Benjamin, his youngest, to Egypt to purchase grain. There they encounter their brother, Joseph, whom they had sold into slavery twenty two years earlier. Joseph, currently second only to the Pharaoh, recognizes his brothers but he will not reveal his true identity until he is certain that they have mended their ways[1]. He needs them to bring his brother, Benjamin, down to Egypt. His plan is to force them into a situation in which they must sacrifice their own freedom for Benjamin’s. And so he accuses them of espionage and incarcerates their second brother, Shimon, telling them that if they ever want to see him alive again, they will return to Egypt with Benjamin.