Genesis 37:27-36 ▼

27 Come, and we sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hands are not on him, for he [is] our brother—our flesh”; and his brothers listen.

28 And Midianite merchantmen pass by and they draw out and bring up Joseph out of the pit, and sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, and they bring Joseph into Egypt.

29 And Reuben returns to the pit, and behold, Joseph is not in the pit, and he tears his garments,

30 and he returns to his brothers and says, “The boy is not, and I—to where am I going?”

31 And they take the coat of Joseph, and slaughter a kid of the goats, and dip the coat in the blood,

32 and send the long coat, and they bring [it] to their father, and say, “We have found this; please discern whether it [is] your son’s coat or not.”

33 And he discerns it and says, “My son’s coat! An evil beast has devoured him; torn—Joseph is torn!”

34 And Jacob tears his raiment, and puts sackcloth on his loins, and becomes a mourner for his son many days,

35 and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuses to comfort himself, and says, “For I go down to my son mourning, to Sheol,” and his father weeps for him.

36 And the Midianites have sold him to Egypt, to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, head of the executioners.