Holy Scripture
Genesis 37:21
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“Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose u…”
Source: Septuagint
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21And Reuben having heard it, rescued him out of their hands, and said, Let us not kill him.
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19And each said to his brother, Behold, that dreamer comes.
20Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be.
— Genesis 37:21 —
22And Reuben said to them, Shed not blood; cast him into one of these pits in the wilderness, but do not lay your hand upon him; that he might rescue him out of their hands, and restore him to his father.
23And it came to pass, when Joseph came to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his many-colored coat that was upon him.