“But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.”
Bible
“For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.”
“And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.”
“And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.”
“And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? / Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? / That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? / And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”
“They were becoming like a little Mafia. If one committed a mischief, the others would not tell.”
Franco Diligenti
“It's not the mischief in this case that would cause the (Supreme) Court to be worried. It's the next case or the case after that where there isn't a clerical mistake but there's an effort to deceive or change the result.”
Alan Morrison
