[Avodah] Kalah NaAh VeChasudah - Midvar Sheker

[Michael Poppers]

In Avodah V43n1, R' Micha noted:
> At the end of Bereishis, the brothers tell Yoseif an outright
fabrication. (Given
Chazal's assumption that Yaaqov didn't actually say such a thing in an
incident that isn't in the chumash.) <
We seemingly had a[nother] fabrication in last week's *sedra*: compare what
the brothers say in 44:8 <https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0144.htm#> (הֵן
כֶּסֶף, אֲשֶׁר מָצָאנוּ בְּפִי אַמְתְּחֹתֵינוּ) with what the Torah relates
as happening in 42 <https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0142.htm>
(specifically, verses 27 and 35); and note that Yosef's directive that time
did not include placing each's money  בְּפִי אַמְתַּחְתּוֹ   (i.e. contrast
42:25 with what happened later, 44:1).  Why didn't they just say
"b'amt'choseinu"?!
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