On this week's episode Tim and Stephen discuss Genesis 42, where the famine drives Joseph's brothers down to Egypt and the dreams that first got him thrown into a pit are going to be providentially fulfilled. They begin with Jacob asking his sons why they look at one another, and notice what sin does to a man: these are brothers strong enough to wipe out a village, now sitting paralyzed by a guilt they have carried for years without repenting of it. Ten brothers bow before the ruler of Egypt, Joseph, who recognizes them while they do not recognize him, answers not with revenge but with a carefully planned test: three days in prison, Simeon bound before their eyes, Benjamin demanded, and their money quietly restored to their sacks so that they have both the means to come back and something to fear. Their confession that "we are truly guilty concerning our brother" comes some fifteen years after the fact. The episode closes on Reuben's offer of his own two sons as surety for Benjamin, but reveal that he is a man still grasping at an authority he has disqualified himself from and cannot exercise, in contrast to the brother who is quietly ruling all Egypt (and the unlikely other brother, Judah, who will succeed where Reuben could not but this is for next episode).