| Foseph Sold to the Merchants by his Brethren.
EUBEN did not mean to leave his brother to die in the

pit; he meant to come back and take Joseph out when
they were all gone. But while he was away, the brothers saw
some camels coming, laden with spice and myrrh; and Judah said,
“ Let us not leave our brother to die, but let us sell him to these
merchants who are coming.” And his brethren listened to this
advice, and drew Joseph up out of the pit, and sold him to the
travelling merchants for twenty pieces of silver, and the Ish-
maelites took him down into Egypt, and sold him for a slave.

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Fostph's Coat of Many Colours brought to
hits Father. |

HEN the wicked ten brothers took Joseph’s pretty coat of |
many colours, and dipped it in the blood of a kid. And
they brought it, all blood-stained, to his father Jacob, and said,
“We have found this coat. Is it your son Joseph’s?” And
Jacob said, “It is my son’s coat—a wae beast has eaten him.
Joseph is without doubt rent to pieces.” ,
And the poor old man cried bitterly and was very miser-
able. Once he had deceived his own father with the skin of a
kid ; now his sons deceive him with the blood of one.