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Genesis chapter 44, verses 33 and 34.

Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord,

and let the boy go back with his brothers.

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me?

I fear to see the evil that would find my father.

So what's happening here is Joseph is testing his brothers.

He's saying, hey, keep Benjamin here and you guys go back to your father. And Judah steps up and says,

no, like, you can't do that. We can't do that. I will stay instead of the boy. Like, let Benjamin

go back. Because if we go back and we don't have Benjamin with us,

then my father will fall apart.

I mean, could die is basically what he's saying.

And so this is a high point for Judah.

We've seen Judah in some not so good ways in the book of Genesis.

But here he offers his life basically as a

substitute for Benjamin. And we don't know what all of his motivations were, but we do know that this is a

picture of Judah saying, I'll be a substitute so that someone else can go free. And the reason why

emphasize that is because this Joseph's story in Genesis is really in a bigger way, a Judah story.

It's interesting. We don't have time right now to dive into all the ways that Judah plays a pivotal part in Joseph's story,

but this is one of them, and this is a picture.

The reason this is so important is because it's from Judah's line that will come King David and ultimately King Jesus.

So as we're reading the story, we need to pay particular attention to Judah's line

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