Father Damien was born Joseph De Veuster in Belgium.

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He wants to know if they are the same men who so callously broke their father's heart by selling Joseph, his father's favorite, so many years ago.

他想知道他们是否还是老样子,就像他们曾经卖了约瑟夫，伤了他们父亲的心，多年前，约瑟夫最受父亲宠爱。

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And Joseph knows that it would decimate his father Jacob to lose Rachel's only remaining son, but he's testing his brothers to see whether they have reformed since the day that they sold him into slavery.

约瑟夫知道这将打击他父亲雅各布,如果失去Rachel唯一剩下的儿子，但他只想考验兄弟看他们是否改过自新,在他们把他变卖为奴之后。

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And indeed Judah, the one who had figured so prominently in the sale of Joseph, that had crushed his father, Judah steps forward and offers himself instead of Benjamin: he says: It would kill my father now to lose Benjamin, the last son of his beloved wife, Rachel.

但确实是犹太，他在卖掉约瑟夫时作用重大，他击溃了他的亲身父亲，他向前一步，提出用自己交换本杰明：,他说：，现在失去了本杰明，我父亲就会死去，他是父亲爱妻Rachel的最后一个儿子。

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