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I wouldn’t want it even if father gave it to me. Anyway, I don’t have the time to bother about what’s inside, I’m too busy preparing for our next harvest”, he often thought.

Reuben and Benjamin were the two of the twelve sons who had good business minds; they were always the ones who volunteered to go down to the market to sell their harvest. Reuben was especially good at speaking to customers. He was very well-liked by the housewives because he remembered each of the regular customers by name, and often chatted them up, giving them “extra discounts” even though their prices were the same as those of the other vendors’.

Benjamin, on the other hand, was good with handling money and observing the happenings in the market. He was also a very rational thinker. Sometimes when they head home with their sales, he would be seen excitedly telling everyone else what he had found.

“There are too many carrots in the market today”, he would exclaim, “people will stop growing them and by the time there is a shortage, the carrots we planted would be ready for harvest, and they could be sold for a good price!”

These circumstances provided Reuben and Benjamin with many practical experiences and trained them to become good businessmen, which later helped them to become very successful in their careers.