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17 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
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6529. 'Only their young children' means innocence. This is clear from the meaning of 'young children' as innocence, dealt with in 430, 3183, 5608.
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