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Title: Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pollard, Josephine, 1834-1892. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible stories, English
Publisher: New York, Akron, Ohio (etc.) The Werner company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and say that a wild beast ate him up.Then we shall see what will be-come of his dreams. But Reu-ben heard it, and saved him out of theirhands. And he said, Let us not kill the lad. Shedno blood; but cast him in-to this pit, and lay no hand Joseph and his Brethren. 83 on him. For he meant to take him out of the pit,and bear him home to his fath-er. But when Jo-seph came near these men whoshould have been kindto him, they took off hiscoat and threw him in-tothe pit, which was dry,or he would havedrowned. These olddry wells were left astraps in which to catchthe wild beasts thatprowled round in thedead of light, and wellthese bad men knewwhat would be Jo-sephsfate. As they sat down toeat, they looked up andsaw a lot of men andcam-els on their way toE-gypt, with spices, andbalm and myrrh. And Ju-dah—one of Ja-cobs sons—said, Let usnot kill the lad, for he is of our own flesh, but let ussell him to these men. And the rest thought it wasa good scheme. So they drew Jo-seph up out of the
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JO-SEPH SOLD BY HIS BROTH-ERS. 84 History of the Old Testament. pit and sold him for a small sum, and those whobought the lad took him down with them to E-gypt. And the bad men took Jo-sephs coat and dippedit in the blood of a kid they had slain. And theybrought it to Ja-cob, and said, This have we found.Is it thy sons coat? And Ja-cob knew it at once, and said, It is mysons coat. Jo-seph has no doubt been the prey ofsome wild beast. And his grief was great. The men who bought Jo-seph brought him downto E-gypt and sold him to Pot-i-phar for a slave. And the Lord was with Jo-seph, who served Pot-i-phar so well, that the rich man put him in charge ofhis home and lands. But Pot-i-phars wife told falsetales, and Jo-seph, who had done no wrong, was thrustin-to jail. Pha-ra-oh was then king of E-gypt. Andit came to pass that he fell out with his but-ler andchief cook, and had them shut up in the same place*where Jo-seph was bound. And the man on guard put them in charge of Jo-seph, who went

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