JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.

who gave them twenty pieces of silver
for Joseph, and took the youth into
Egypt, where he was sold to one of
the king’s officers, and thus became a
bond-servant in a strange land.

His brothers, being afraid their fa-
ther might suspect what they had done,
killed a kid of the goats, and dipping
Joseph’s rich coat in the blood, took
it home to their father, saying “This
have we found, know now whether it
be thy son’s coat or no.” And Jacob
knew it, and said, “It is my son’s
coat.” So Jacob thought Joseph had
been killed by some wild beast; and
long and deeply did he grieve for the
loss of his dear child.

Joseph met with many strange ad-
ventures in Egypt, and for some time

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