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Genesis 37
And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan wherein his father
sojourned.
And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen
years old, was feeding the dock with his brethren, being
but a boy: and he was with the sons of and of Zelpha
his father's wives : and he accused his brethren to
his father of a most wicked crime.
Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because
he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of
divers colours.
And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father,
more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak
peaceably to him.
Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream,
that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him
the more.
And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.
I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and
my sheaf arose as it were, end stood, and your sheaves
standing about, bowed down before my sheaf.
His brethren answered : Shalt thou be our king? or shall
we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter
of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their
envy and hatred.
He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren,
saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the
moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.
And when he had told this to his father and brethren,
his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this
dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother,
and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?
His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered
the thing with himself.
And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their
father's docks,
Israel said to him : Thy brethren feed the sheep in
Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he
answered:
I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things
be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring
me word again what is doing. So being sent from the
vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:
And a man found him there wandering in the field, and
asked what he sought.
But he answered: I seek my brethren; tell me where they
feed the docks.
And the man said to him: They are departed from this
place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And
Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them
in Dothain.
And when they saw him afar off, be- fore he came nigh
them, they thought to kill him.
And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.
Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit
: and we will say : Some evil beast hath devoured him:
and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him :
And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out
of their hands, end said:
Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast
him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep
your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous
to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him
to his father.
And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith
stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:
And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.
And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites
on their way coming from Calaad, with their camels,
carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.
And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us
to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?
It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and
that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother
and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.
And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew
him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites,
for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt.
And Ruben, returning to the pit, found not the boy:
And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and
said: The boy doth not appear and whither shall I go?
And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of
a kid, which they had killed :
Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say:
This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat,
or not.
And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's
coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath
devoured Joseph.
And tearing his garments, he put an sackcloth, mourning
for his son a long time.
And alibis children being gathered together to comfort
their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort,
but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning.
And whilst he continued weeping,
The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an
eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.
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