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Midrash for Genesis 44:10

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר גַּם־עַתָּ֥ה כְדִבְרֵיכֶ֖ם כֶּן־ה֑וּא אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִמָּצֵ֤א אִתּוֹ֙ יִהְיֶה־לִּ֣י עָ֔בֶד וְאַתֶּ֖ם תִּהְי֥וּ נְקִיִּֽם׃

And he said: ‘Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my bondman; and ye shall be blameless.’

Otzar Midrashim

IV) Because [thus] the king's son is dead (II Samuel 18:20). The word thus is lacking, because of the evil of his deeds, for he sought to kill his father and cover up the matter, and came to fornicate with his father's concubines. Though Joab said because thus the king's son is dead, the word thus is suspended on the margin, because the king's son was killed for his wrongs, but thus can mean right as in rightly have the daughters of Ẓelopheḥad spoken (Numbers 27:7) or "what you are saying is right." (Genesis 44:10).
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