Genesis 37:25-36

25When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt.

26Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

27Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed.

28So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.

29Later Reuben returned to the cistern to find that Joseph was not in it! He tore his clothes,

30returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”

31So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

32Then they brought the special tunic to their father and said, “We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

33He recognized it and exclaimed, “It is my son’s tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

34Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.

35All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.

36Now in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.