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"Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other children, for he was the son of his old age and he had a coat with long sleeves made for him. His brothers who saw that their father loved him more than he loved them, hated him and could no longer speak to him in a friendly way.

"His brothers had gone to pasture their father's flock at Shechem, and Israel said to Joseph, 'Your brothers are pasturing the flock at Shechem; come along, I'll send you to them.' Joseph replied, 'Hear I am'.

"The man said, 'They have gone from here, for I heard them say: Let's go to Dothan!' So Joseph went off after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

"They saw him in the distance and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. They said to one another, 'Here comes the specialist in dreams! Now's the time! Let's kill him and throw him into a well. We'll say a wild animal devoured him. Then we'll see what his dreams were all about!' But Reuben heard this and tried to save him from their hands saying, 'Let us not kill him; shed no blood! Throw him in this well in the wilderness, but do him no violence.' This he said to save him from them and take him back to his father.

"So as soon as Joseph arrived, they stripped him of his long-sleeved coat that he wore and thent ook him and threw him in the well. Now the well was empty, without water.

"They were sitting for a meal when they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, their camels laden with spices, balm and myrrh, which they were taking down to Egypt. Judah then said to his brothers, 'What do we gain by killing our brother and hiding his blod? Come! We'll sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother and our own flesh!' His brother agreed to this.

"So when the Midianite merchants came along they pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the well. For twenty pieces of silver they sold Joseph to the Midianites, who took him with them to Egypt."

GENESIS 37:3-4,12-13,17-28

"Oh! That You would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory, that Your Hand would be with me, that You would keep me from evil, that I would not cause pain."

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