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19 My lord asked his servants,[a] ‘Have you a father, or another brother?’ 20 So we said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and a younger brother, the child of his old age. This one’s full brother is dead, and since he is the only one by his mother who is left, his father is devoted to him.’(A) 21 Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me that I might see him.’

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  1. 44:19 My lord asked his servants: such frequently repeated expressions in Judah’s speech show the formal court style used by a subject in speaking to a high official.

19 My lord asked his servants,(A) ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’(B) 20 And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age.(C) His brother is dead,(D) and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’(E)

21 “Then you said to your servants,(F) ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him for myself.’(G)

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