Genesis 37:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

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  • Ps 105:17 : 17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
  • Acts 7:9 : 9 "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
  • Gen 45:4-5 : 4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 5 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
  • Judg 6:1-3 : 1 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. 2 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds. 3 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;
  • Gen 25:2 : 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
  • Gen 37:25 : 25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
  • Gen 37:36 : 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
  • Isa 60:6 : 6 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of Yahweh.
  • Zech 11:12-13 : 12 I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. 13 Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yahweh.
  • Matt 26:15 : 15 and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
  • Matt 27:9 : 9 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, "They took the thirty pieces of silver, The price of him upon whom a price had been set, Whom some of the children of Israel priced,
  • Judg 8:22 : 22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule you over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.
  • Judg 8:24 : 24 Gideon said to them, I would make a request of you, that you would give me every man the ear-rings of his spoil. (For they had golden ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
  • Ps 83:9 : 9 Do to them as you did to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
  • Exod 2:16 : 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
  • Num 25:15 : 15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.
  • Num 25:17 : 17 Vex the Midianites, and strike them;
  • Num 31:2-3 : 2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your people. 3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.
  • Num 31:8-9 : 8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword. 9 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

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  • 27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

  • 1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.

  • 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

  • Gen 37:23-25
    3 verses
    79%

    23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

    24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

    25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

  • 17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

  • 29 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

  • 2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

  • 4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

  • 32 The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

  • 3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • 15 The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

  • 9 "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

  • 20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

  • Gen 42:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

    6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

  • 31 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

  • 18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.