37:12 約瑟的哥哥們往示劍去放他們父親的羊。
37:13 以色列對約瑟說：「你哥哥們不是在示劍放羊嗎？你來，我要打發你往他們那裡去。」約瑟說：「我在這裡。」
37:14 以色列說：「你去看看你哥哥們平安不平安，群羊平安不平安，就回來報信給我。」於是打發他出希伯崙谷，他就往示劍去了。
37:15 有人遇見他在田野走迷了路，就問他說：「你找甚麼？」
37:16 他說：「我找我的哥哥們，求你告訴我，他們在何處放羊。」
37:17 那人說：「他們已經走了，我聽見他們說要往多坍去。」約瑟就去追趕他哥哥們，遇見他們在多坍。
37:18 他們遠遠地看見他，趁他還沒有走到跟前，大家就同謀要害死他，
37:19 彼此說：「你看！那做夢的來了。
37:20 來吧！我們將他殺了，丟在一個坑裡，就說有惡獸把他吃了。我們且看他的夢將來怎麼樣。」
37:21 流便聽見了，要救他脫離他們的手，說：「我們不可害他的性命」；
37:22 又說：「不可流他的血，可以把他丟在這野地的坑裡，不可下手害他。」流便的意思是要救他脫離他們的手，把他歸還他的父親。
37:23 約瑟到了他哥哥們那裡，他們就剝了他的外衣，就是他穿的那件彩衣，
37:24 把他丟在坑裡；那坑是空的，裡頭沒有水。
37:25 他們坐下吃飯，舉目觀看，見有一夥米甸的以實瑪利人從基列來，用駱駝馱著香料、乳香、沒藥，要帶下埃及去。
37:26 猶大對眾弟兄說：「我們殺我們的兄弟，藏了他的血有甚麼益處呢？
37:27 我們不如將他賣給以實瑪利人，不可下手害他；因為他是我們的兄弟，我們的骨肉。」眾弟兄就聽從了他。
37:28 有些米甸的商人從那裡經過，哥哥們就把約瑟從坑裡拉上來，講定二十舍客勒銀子，把約瑟賣給以實瑪利人。他們就把約瑟帶到埃及去了。
37:29 流便回到坑邊，見約瑟不在坑裡，就撕裂衣服，
37:30 回到兄弟們那裡，說：「童子沒有了。我往哪裡去才好呢？」
37:31 他們宰了一隻公山羊，把約瑟的那件彩衣染了血，
37:32 打發人送到他們的父親那裡，說：「我們撿了這個；請認一認是你兒子的外衣不是？」
37:33 他認得，就說：「這是我兒子的外衣。有惡獸把他吃了，約瑟被撕碎了！撕碎了！」
37:34 雅各便撕裂衣服，腰間圍上麻布，為他兒子悲哀了多日。
37:35 他的兒女都起來安慰他，他卻不肯受安慰，說：「我必悲哀著下陰間，到我兒子那裡。」約瑟的父親就為他哀哭。
37:36 米甸人帶約瑟到埃及，把他賣給法老的內臣
─護衛長波提乏。
12 Now his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near
Shechem, 13 and Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your
brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to
them.”
“Very well,” he replied.
14 So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers and
with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the
Valley of Hebron.
When Joseph arrived at Shechem, 15 a man
found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, “What are you looking
for?”
16 He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they
are grazing their flocks?”
17 “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say,
‘Let’s go to Dothan.’”
So Joseph went after his brothers and
found them near Dothan. 18 But they saw him in the distance, and before he
reached them, they plotted to kill him.
19 “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. 20 “Come now,
let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious
animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”
21 When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands.
“Let’s not take his life,” he said. 22 “Don’t shed any blood. Throw
him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.”
Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.
23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his
robe—the ornate robe he was wearing— 24 and they took him and threw
him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.
25 As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan
of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm
and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.
26 Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our
brother and cover up his blood? 27 Come, let’s sell him to the
Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own
flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed.
28 So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph
up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels[b] of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him
to Egypt.
29 When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not
there, he tore his clothes. 30 He went back to his brothers
and said, “The boy isn’t there! Where can I turn now?”
31 Then they got Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe
in the blood. 32 They took the ornate robe back to their father and
said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe.”
33 He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! Some ferocious
animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.”
34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his
son many days. 35 All his sons and daughters came to comfort him,
but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until
I join my son in the grave.” So his father wept for him.
36 Meanwhile, the Midianites[c] sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of
Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.
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約瑟雖得父親喜愛，卻被弟兄們痛惡，甚至於想把他殺了！還好猶大想了一個法子，就是將他賣給米甸人，最後被帶到埃及去！
