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17And 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.

    18And when they saw him afar off, be- fore he came nigh them, they thought to kill him.

    19And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.

    20Come, 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 :

    21And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, end said:

    22Do 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.

    23And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:

    24And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.

    25And 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.

    26And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?

    27It 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.

    28And 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.

    29And Ruben, returning to the pit, found not the boy:

    30And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear and whither shall I go?

    31And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed :

    32Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.

    33And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.

    34And tearing his garments, he put an sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.

    35And 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,