"Reuben!" "Quickly!" "Someone help him!" "Someone help him!" "Don't drink all of it!" "Father heard right;" "there's food in Egypt." "Did you hear?" "It's true!" "Thank heavens!" "Shh." "Shh!" "I met a caravan loaded down with grain." "They said the Egyptians have plenty to sell." "yet Egypt prospers. he predicted the famine seven years before it happened." "Seven years? he sells it to nations in need." "he's sent from God to save us." "carry my water for me!" "Benjamin is staying with me." "Benjamin's staying?" "What?" "For what?" "Why do you always baby him?" "Benjamin stays." "We're not going to let anything happen to your favorite son!" "Hmph!" "That's what you said about Joseph." "Our nation is starving." "We would have paid any price to buy your grain." "This is the fair price for what you bought." "We will always remember your kindness." "This is how I like it:" "Egypt is as firm as a rock." "I wonder if I might ask a favor." "Anything!" "Let me go to my father." "Joseph." "and all this time he's been thinking I was dead." "haven't we?" "Pharaoh." "Egypt needs you." "I'm afraid I must insist." "then we're done for the day." "Whew!" "How much do they want?" "Whatever we can give." "Country?" "Canaan." "It can't be!" "brothers?" "What?" "!" "What?" "!" "Those are my brothers!" "the ones who tried to kill you?" "Yes." "They always hated Benjamin and me." "They thought Father loved us more." "Oh good!" "It's time for revenge." "I'll call the guards!" "No!" "Let's see where their hearts are." "you just play along." "a little play acting?" "I'm very good at that sort of thing." "What... what's he doing?" "Shhh!" "you've come for grain." "my lord." "We've had a problem with spies lately." "my lord." "I'll be the judge of that." "you're from Canaan." "we're brothers." "brothers?" "I find that hard to believe." "my lord." "We are the twelve sons of Jacob." "I count ten." "well... but one of them stayed at home with father." "They're alive then." "Sir?" "Nothing." "And the other brother?" "You!" "Me?" "!" "What happened to the other brother?" "Quickly!" "um... he was sold!" "He was killed!" "He died!" "Guards!" "Take them to prison." "my lord." "We are innocent!" "you are going for revenge!" "What'll we do?" "Have them whipped?" "Flogged?" "they need to be tested." "I'll have them bring Benjamin alone." "You just keep playing along and take good care of my brothers." "or are they guests?" "They're guests... in our prison." "Levi." "It wasn't my fault!" ""You!"" "You were real tough under pressure." "It isn't his fault." "We're being paid back for what we did to Joseph." "I told you not to do it!" "You told us to throw him into the pit!" "I was trying to protect him!" "When I came back you'd already sold him off to the slave traders!" "You wanted him gone just as much as we did." "We've committed a horrible sin." "May God's mercy be upon us." "we'll load my brothers' mules with grain and make sure everything's ready to go." "Then we'll let them out of the jail." "And you want me to give them twice as much grain as they paid for." "Right." "Joseph." "Is this their money?" "Do the same with the rest." "I can't believe you're going to let them all go." "I didn't say that." "Go!" "You can take your grain back to your country now." "But one of you will stay." "let's see." "You." "Whew! and I'll set Simeon free." "How did you know his name?" "I know many things." "we told you:" "Benjamin is my father's favorite son." "He won't let us bring him. wouldn't you?" "but when we opened the sacks to feed the animals our money was inside." "Very strange." "we're thrown in jail;" "then we're set free;" "then Simeon has to stay; then we get twice as much grain as we asked for;" "now we get home and find the money we gave them in our sacks." "they'll think we stole it." "And the punishment for stealing is..." "death." "do you?" "I've lost another son." "We have to go back." "And we'll take this money and Benjamin with us." "Benjamin stays with me." "We can't leave Simeon in prison!" "I will not lose a third son!" "Your brothers should have returned weeks ago." "We told you:" "my father will never let Benjamin come." "This Benjamin must be very special." "He and Joseph were always my father's favorites. or ever will see;" "he nearly died from the grief." "I'm glad your father lived." "There is still so much to live for." "I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry." "This is all that's left." "we have to go back." "I'll give you this promise:" "and I will protect him with my very life." "No." "we all will die." "then so be it." "Lord." "Joseph!" "Joseph!" "A message from the desert:" "a party of Canaanites is approaching." "How many are there?" "Ten!" "They brought Benjamin!" "and bring them to the palace!" "What's happening?" "all right." "so long as I'm not hanged." "They wouldn't bring us to the governor's palace to be hanged." "We'll probably become his personal slaves." "Long time no see." "We didn't steal the money." "What money?" "and more!" "that." "Don't make slaves out of us." "Little chance of that." "The governor has something quite different in mind for you. we'll probably be guests of honor at a royal banquet!" "I'm dreaming; this can't be happening!" "no." "Please stand and keep your money." "You're guests in my house." "I hope your journey was a safe one." "It was." "Is your father well?" "He is." "sir." "I had a feeling." "Benjamin." "my lord." "you must eat!" "oldest to youngest... aren't you?" "and pile it high." "too. or they're going to be gone. do you think they'd do things differently?" "I'm not sure this is the right time for a philosophical discussion." "I want to give them the chance." "You're the governor of Egypt!" "They can't throw you into a pit or choose to make you a slave." "Not me..." "Benjamin!" "I want to see what they'll do if I threaten to make him a slave." "listen carefully." "There's something I want you to do before they leave." "We must be on our way." "It's going to be a long trip." "We must leave now." "Wha...?" "you men!" "no." "Is this how you treat the governor after everything he's done for you?" "Here it comes." "and we know that one of you took it!" "I knew it." "I knew it." "Didn't I?" "Didn't I know it?" "No one stole anything! and the rest of us will be your slaves." "Agreed?" "we are innocent!" "We didn't do it." "Silence! the brother who took it should die." "The cup was found in Benjamin's sack." "my lord." "We are honest men!" "Honest men don't steal from my table!" "We didn't steal!" "Then explain how my cup found its way into your hands!" "sir! but we did not steal the cup." "Alright then." "You're free to go..." "all except Benjamin." "No!" "Benjamin!" "He will stay and be my servant." "Take him!" "my lord!" "I beg you!" "Don't do it!" "It will kill my father if he doesn't come back!" "You should have thought of that before!" "Take me!" "and take me in his place." "I will be your servant. whom you sold into Egypt." "Joseph?" "It is Joseph." "Joseph." "We all are." "Don't be." "I can see it clearly now." "God sent me to Egypt so we all could be saved from the famine." "let me show you what the Lord has done." "then gently guides my footsteps home in a wondrous way." "lifts me while I pray;" "then he redeems me in a wondrous way. ( end song)" "Send your brothers to get your father;" "he will live here in peace."