- Benjamin was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob’s twelfth and youngest son overall in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also considered the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel’s first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan according to biblical narrative.
And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
Matthew 18:9 NIV