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Genesis 43
The famine grows worse and Jacob lets Benjamin go down to Egypt with his brothers. Joseph's steward welcomes them; Joseph, seeing his brother Benjamin, goes out to weep in private, then seats them by age and gives Benjamin five times as much.
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Šālôm covers health, welfare and good relationships, not just the absence of conflict.
Joseph asks his brothers about their šālôm and their father's (Gen 43:27), and his brothers cannot speak to him lĕšālôm, 'peaceably' (Gen 37:4).