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Benjamin

son of Jacob

Youngest son of Jacob and Rachel.

158 appearances23 Bible books1 known aliases

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Youngest son of and only full brother of , born to on the road near as she dies. He is the brother Jacob refuses to send to Egypt until famine forces his hand, and his presence becomes the occasion for Joseph's final test with the silver cup hidden in his sack. His tribe receives a small but warlike inheritance in the central hill country and produces King and the apostle , who repeatedly identifies himself as of the tribe of Benjamin. References to the tribe and territory of Benjamin roll up to this entity.

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