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But Judas, being one of Jacob's sons also, seeing some Arabians,
of the posterity of Ismael, carrying spices and Syrian wares out of the
land of Gilead to the Egyptians, after Rubel was gone, advised his brethren
to draw Joseph out of the pit, and sell him to the Arabians; for if he
should die among strangers a great way off, they should be freed
from this barbarous action. This, therefore, was resolved on; so they drew
Joseph up out of the pit, and sold him to the merchants for twenty pounds
1 He was
now seventeen years old. But Reubel, coming in the night-time to the pit,
resolved to save Joseph, without the privity of his brethren; and when,
upon his calling to him, he made no answer, he was afraid that they had
destroyed him after he was gone; of which he complained to his brethren;
but when they had told him what they had done, Reubel left off his mourning.
1 The Septuagint have twenty pieces of gold; the Testament of Gad thirty; the Hebrew and Samaritan twenty of silver; and the vulgar Latin thirty. What was the true number and true sum cannot therefore now be known.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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