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Gen 44:20 — And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

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we said	Every word in this verse is simplicity and pathos itself. No man of the least sensibility can read it without great emotion. Indeed the whole speech is exquisitely beautiful, and perhaps the most complete pattern of genuine natural eloquence extant in any language. When we read this generous speech, we forgive Judah all the past, and cannot refuse to say, 'Thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise.' Gen 49:8
a child	Gen 35:18; Gen 37:3,19; Gen 43:7,8; Gen 46:21
and his brother	Gen 37:33-35; Gen 42:36,38
he alone	Gen 44:27-29; Luk 7:12