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Genesis - ch 37 v 21 - 36
- And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, end said:
- Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father.
- And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:
- And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.
- And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Calaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.
- And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?
- It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.
- And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt.
- And Ruben, returning to the pit, found not the boy:
- And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear and whither shall I go?
- And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed :
- Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.
- And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.
- And tearing his garments, he put an sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.
- And alibis children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,
- The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.
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