“For your servant guaranteed for the lad, to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him to you, I will have sinned to my father for all time’.” Genesis 44:32)
“When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognised them, but he acted like a stranger toward them” Genesis 42:7
“After a time, his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, ‘Lie with me’. But he refused” Genesis 39:7-8
Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; let what you have remain yours” Genesis 33:9
“The secret things belong to the Lord, our God, and/but the overt things belong (to us and our children) forever, to be done, all the words of this instruction” Deuteronomy 29:28
“And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this Torah ba’er heiteiv (very clearly)” Deuteronomy 27:8
“When in your war against a city you have to besiege it a long time in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees, wielding the axe against them. You shall eat of them, but you must not cut them down” Deuteronomy 20:19
“There shall be no needy among you” Deuteronomy 15:4
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