Here, the issue in this poem is grief, how the mother and father each express how they deal with the death of their child.

这首诗谈论的问题很悲伤，这个父亲和母亲表达,他们对死去孩子的处理方式。

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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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