Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 37:28 in context
Genesis 37:25–31
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They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
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Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.
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Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.
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Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
30
He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”
31
They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
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