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21 They said to one another, “Alas, we are paying the penalty for what we did to our brother; we saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this anguish has come upon us.” 22 Then Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to wrong the boy? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.” Genesis 42:21-22, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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