We don’t need a psychologist to tell us what is going on here. We can feel it—especially those of us who have felt the awesome pain of family dysfunction in our pasts. We’ve wept those tears. Look at the brothers. Even before they recognized Joseph, they smelled something wrong. The guilt and remorse of the violence of the past was not far below the surface of their lives. It took just one little inconvenience during this Egyptian trip for their confidence to be shaken. When Joseph put their backs to the wall, they disintegrated. The first thing that came to their minds? The memory of selling
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