You and my brother Benjamin can certainly see with your own eyes that I really am the one who speaks to you. ¹ 

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning devouring the prey, and in the evening dividing the plunder.”

With her dying breath, ¹  she named him Ben-Oni. ²  But his father called him Benjamin instead. ³ 

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, ¹  for he said, ²  “What if some accident ³  happens ⁴  to him?”

May the sovereign God ¹  grant you mercy before the man so that he may release ²  your other brother ³  and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.” ⁴ 

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant who was over his household, “Bring the men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon.”

When Joseph looked up ¹  and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he said, “Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.” ²