And they sent the robe of many colors and brought it to their father and said, “This we have found; please identify whether it is your son's robe or not.”
But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.’ Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.’
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.
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