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54 The king said, ‘Bring him to grain from me, nor shall you
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me. I will take him for my special ever approach me again.’ They
service.’ And when he had replied, ‘We shall try to persuade
spoken to him, he said, ‘From his father to send him with us.
now on you will dwell with us, We shall do [our utmost]!’
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honoured and trusted.’ Joseph 62 Joseph said to his servants,
said, ‘Place in my charge the ‘Put their money back into their
storehouses of the land; for I am saddlebags, so that they will
a good and knowledgeable recognize it when they return
custodian.’ 56 Thus We caused home to their family; thus they
Joseph to be established in a may come back.’ 63 When they
position of authority in the land. returned to their father, they said,
He could dwell therein wherever ‘Our father, any [further]
he pleased. We bestow Our mercy measure of grain has been denied
on whomever We please, and We us, so send our brother
do not allow the reward of the [Benjamin] along with us, so
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righteous to go to waste. Yet that we may obtain our measure
the reward of the hereafter is [of grain]; and, we shall guard
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best for those who believe and him well.’ He replied, ‘Am I to
are mindful of God. trust you with him as I once
58 Joseph’s brothers arrived trusted you with his brother? But
and presented themselves before God is the best of guardians, the
him. He recognized them, but Most Merciful of all.’
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they did not know him. When 65 When they opened their
he had made provision for them, packs, they discovered that their
he told them, ‘Bring me your money had been returned to them.
brother on your father’s side. Do They said, ‘Our father, what more
you not see that I give you full do we desire than this? This
measure and that I am the best of money of ours has been returned
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hosts? But if you do not bring to us, so we shall [again] buy
him to me, you shall have no food for our family and we shall