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And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan wherein his father sojourned .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream , that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.
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And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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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 ?
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His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.
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And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their father 's docks,
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Israel said to him : Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem : come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered:
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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 :
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And a man found him there wandering in the field , and asked what he sought.
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But he answered: I seek my brethren ; tell me where they feed the docks.
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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 .
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And when they saw him afar off, be- fore he came nigh them, they thought to kill him.
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And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh .
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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 :
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And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands , end said :
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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 .
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And as soon as he came to his brethren , they forthwith stript him of his outside coat , that was of divers colours:
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And cast him into an old pit , where there was no water .
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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 .
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And Juda said to his brethren : What will it profit us to kill our brother , and conceal his blood ?
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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.
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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 .
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And Ruben , returning to the pit , found not the boy:
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And rending his garments he went to his brethren , and said : The boy doth not appear and whither shall I go ?
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And they took his coat , and dipped it in the blood of a kid , which they had killed :
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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.
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And the father acknowledging it, said : It is my son's coat , an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph .
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And tearing his garments , he put an sackcloth , mourning for his son a long time.
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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,
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The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.