Genesis 37:20-28
Read Genesis 37 in full →20“So now, come and let us kill him and cast him into one of the pits; and awe will say, ‘A wild beast devoured him.’ Then let us see what will become of his dreams!” 21But aReuben heard this and delivered him out of their hands and said, “Let us not strike down his life.” 22Reuben further said to them, “Shed no blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not put forth your hands against him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands to return him to his father. 23Now it happened, when Joseph 1reached his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his 2tunic, the varicolored tunic that was on him; 24and they took him and cast him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.
25And they sat down to eat 1a meal. Then they lifted up their eyes and saw, and behold, a caravan of aIshmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing 2,baromatic gum and 3,cbalm and 4myrrh, going to bring them down to Egypt. 26And Judah said to his brothers, “What gain is it that we kill our brother and acover up his blood? 27“aCome and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened. 28Then some aMidianite traders passed by, so they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the pit and bsold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for 1twenty shekels of silver. Thus cthey brought Joseph into Egypt.