Genesis 37:27-29

New Catholic Bible

²⁷ Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites. This way, we will not have laid hands on him, for he is our brother and our flesh.” His brothers agreed with him.

²⁸ Now some Ishmaelite traders passed by, and his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. Thus Joseph was brought into Egypt.

²⁹ When Reuben returned to the cistern, he found that Joseph was no longer there. He ripped his garments,