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The brothers then explained to their father, Jacob, that the son had been eaten by wild animals, leaving Jacob weeping for several days for his favourite son’s passing.

Reuben and Benjamin knew all too well what had kept their family going comfortably money-wise despite the size of their family. It was within this antiquated handheld wooden chest that their father had always kept hidden in his room that was never shown to anyone.

Benjamin only knew of its existence when once as a young lad he was playing with his straw toy, he noticed his father taking the chest out of an old wooden drawer and opening it to examine its inner content.

The chest looked like it had been frequently opened over the past decades. Some parts of the wood had already been chipped off, eroded or rotten with age. Yet it seemed to exude an air of wealth and richness.