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Genesis 37 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
4 And his brethren seeing that he was loved of his father more than all his sons, they hated him, neither could they speak any thing to him peaceably.
Joseph's Dreams
5 It chanced also that he reported to his brethren a dream that he had seen, which occasion was the seed of great hatred.
6 And he said to them: hear my dream which I have seen:
7 I thought we bound sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about did adore my sheaf.
8 His brethren answered: What? Shalt thou be our King? Or shall we be subject to thy dominion? This occasion of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to the envy and hatred.
9 He saw also another dream, which telling his brethren, he said: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars adore me.
10 Which when he had reported to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast seen? Why, shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren adore thee upon the earth?
11 His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.
18 Who when they had seen him a far off, before he came nigh them, they devised to kill him:
19 and spake among themselves: Behold the dreamer cometh,
20 come, let us kill him, and cast him into an old cistern: and we will say a naughty wild beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams do profit him.
21 And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, and said:
22 Do not take away his life, neither shed ye blood: but cast him into this cistern that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: and he said this, desirous to deliver him out of their hands, and to restore him to his father.
23 As soon therefore as he came unto his brethren, forthwith they stripped him out of his side coat, and of diverse colours,
24 and cast him into the old cistern, that had not water.
25 And sitting to eat bread, they saw Ismaelites, wayfaring men coming from Galaad, and their camels carrying spices, and rosen, and myrrh into AEgypt.
26 Judas therefore said to his brethren: What availeth it us if we kill our brother, and conceal his blood?
27 It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not polluted: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren assented to his words.
28 And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drawing him out of the cistern, sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver, who brought him into AEgypt.
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