VERSE NO. 67 - 68

      The children of Israel eventually took their younger brother with the permission of their father, and set out on their journey to Egypt for the second time. Jacob their father was a man of knowledge and experience and gave them some instructions that how should enter the town. He said:ِ

      ``O, my sons! Do not enter the town through one single gate, but enter by different gates.''  As to question why did Jacob ask his sons to enter the gates separately? There are two or three views here, that all can be true:ِ

      1ِ Consider that eleven tall, handsome men, all strangers, with different dress, and different language, without any visa, or formal approval of officials, or of a superior, entering a town at once and from one gate!! Do they not attract the attention of the citizens, and even their suspicions? By entering separately, they would attract less suspicion.

      2ِ In the East, particularly in Jewish custom, they forbid showing up, like many persons of the same family going together for fear of ©the evil eye¨.

      Anyway, the brethren travelled to Egypt once again. They observed their father's instruction of entering the town separately though it did not profit them the least, against Allah's plan. It only could be a consolation to Jacob some how.