Joseph sold to Egypt

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.