Genesis 42:18–25
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About this episode
We come now to a moment in Scripture where the past, long buried and presumed dead, rises up like a ghost at a feast. Joseph's brothers, twenty years prior, had engaged in a sin of the blackest sort. They had committed fratricide in their hearts, moderated it down to kidnapping and human trafficking for a profit, and then spent two decades living a lie. They had built their lives on the shifting sands of a great and terrible deception, not only to their father, but to themselves. They had, in all likelihood, come to a settled arrangement with their sin. The account was closed, the books were balanced, and the matter was forgotten. He is the divine auditor who never misses a line item. The central lesson we must grasp from this passage is that unconfessed sin is never dead; it is merely dormant.