Holy Scripture

Genesis 37:24

A church father on this verse
“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…”
Clement of Rome, 1th c. — Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapters 3-4

Source: Septuagint

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24And they took him and cast him into the pit; and the pit was empty, it had not water.

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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.

— Genesis 37:24 —

25And they sat down to eat bread; and having lifted up their eyes they beheld, and lo, Ishmaelitish travelers came from Gilead, and their camels were heavily loaded with spices, and resin, and myrrh; and they went to bring them to Egypt.

26And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

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