Holy Scripture
Genesis 37:28
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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
28And the men, the merchants of Midian, went by, and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of gold; and they brought Joseph down into Egypt.
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In context
26And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
27Come, let us sell him to these Ishmaelites, but let not our hands be upon him, because he is our brother and our flesh; and his brethren hearkened.
— Genesis 37:28 —
29And Reuben returned to the pit, and sees not Joseph in the pit; and he rent his garments.
30And he returned to his brethren and said, The boy is not; and I, whither am I yet to go?