Genesis 43:14

"And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your older brother and Benjamin. And if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

In this, Jacob rested his hope on the blessing of God, agreeing to accept whatever consequences came of the situation with faith and resignation. We cannot leave this record of the preparations for that second journey without recalling the words of Morris:

"These brothers had sold their brother into Egypt for twenty pieces of silver; and now they were having to pay into the treasuries of Egypt, not merely twenty pieces of money, but twenty bundles of money. The words for "silver" and "money" are the same in the Hebrew [~keceph]."[8]

"Almighty God ..." The word for God here is [~'El] [~Shadday], the God of the Abrahamic covenant (Genesis 17:1).[9] Jacob's use of this word showed that he had returned to the trust in God from which he had apparently somewhat drifted away, especially in his complaint in Genesis 42:36, "All these things are against me." Indeed it seemed that way, but God was in reality doing the very things that were required before Jacob could become a great nation. So it often is with men when it seems that all is wrong, that troubles are multiplying, and that life is unfair. But in reality the Lord knoweth them that are his, and he will never leave them nor forsake them.