Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 37
The Five Books of Moses
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aah uf §¤¤zpl3. jacob continued to reside in theland of his father’s foreignhood——in the land of Cenan. These are the progeny of jacob.
joseph a led of seventeen years was attending to the sheep with his brothers, the young men who were sons of Biiah and sons of Ziifa two of his fa,ther's wives. And joseph reported their bad conduct to their father. Israel, also, loved joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, so he made him a robe with long sleeves. And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, so they hated him, and would not let him be in peace, joseph, however, dreamed a dream, and told it to his brothers, and they hated him the Listen now to the dream that I dreamed: We were binding sheaves in the middle of a field, when my sheaf arose, and stood up, and your sheaves turned, and bow_ed to my sheaf.’ 8 But they replied to their brother; ‘ Reigning, would you reign, and S0 they hated him the more, because of his dream, and his talk. 9 Then he dreamed another dream, and related it to his brothers, and I have dreamed another dream, 10 II I2 when the sun and the moon and eleven stars came and did homage to me.’ He told it to his father and to his brothers, and his father reproved him, What is this dream which you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother, and your brothers, come and bow down to the ground to So his brothers envied him ; but his father remembered the event. His brothers afterwards went to
pasture their father’s sheep in Shekhem, and Israel said to joseph, ‘ Are not your brothers feeding the sheep in Shekhem ? Go! I will send you to them} I am ready!
Go, then, and see how your brothers are, and how the sheep are, and bring me word. 37-··-29
They had gone, however, from the
vale of Hebron, and removed to Shekhem. And a man met him while search-
What When he answered, *1 am seeking my brothers. Tell me where I can find them? ’ They
have marched from here, for I heard them say ‘ Let us go to the Two joseph consequently went after his brothers and found them at the Two Wells. When they saw him in the distance, and before he ap- proached them, they determined to murder him; and each said to his Here is My Lord the Dreamer! There he comes! So now let us go and murder him, and fling him into one of these wells and we will say awild beast caught him, then we shall see what will come of his dreams I But Reuben heard it, and wished
to deliver him from their hand, so he Let us not destroy his life} Let us not shed his blood. Let us fling him for he was desirous that they should not stab him, so that he might rescue him from their hands to return him to his father. Therefore when joseph was come
to his brothers, they stripped the robe from joseph ;—the long—sleeved robe which was on hirn,—and took him and flung him into the empty well, with no water in it. Then they turned to eat bread. But looking up, they saw at a distance Ishmaelites coming from Gilad with their camels loaded with spices, and nuts and balm, who were going down to Mitzeraim. Then judah said to his brothers,
‘ What profit is it to us to murder our brother and dabble ourselves in his blood? Come on! Let us sell him to these Ishmaelites, and that guilt will not be upon us; for he is so they listened to their brother. Mean- time those Midianite merchants came on, and approached ; so they pulled up joseph from out of the well, and sold joseph to the Ishmaelites, for twenty shekels. Thus joseph was taken down to Mitzeraim; therefore I Esrm-
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