Conclusion of Joseph's Brothers Hate Him

About this time some Ish'ma-el-ite men come along. Judah says to his half brothers:  'Let's sell him to the Ish'ma-el-ites/'  And that's what they do.  They sell Joseph for 20 pieces of silver.  How mean and unkind that was!


What will the brothers tell their father?  They kill a  goat and again and again dip Joseph's beautiful coat into the goat's blood. Then they take the coat home to their father Jacob and says:  'We found this. Look at it, and see if this is not Joseph's coat.' 

Jacob sees that it is. 'A wild animal must have killed Joseph,' he cries. And that is just what Joseph's brothers want their father to think. Jacob is very, very sad. He weeps for many days.  But Joseph is not dead.  Let's see what happens to him and where he is taken.

Genesis 37:1-35. 

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