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Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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EVEN Jacob did not realize how bitter had
grown the dislike and resentment of his older
sons toward Joseph. Hence the father him-
self placed in their hands the opportunity and temp-
tation to rid themselves of this new supplanter.
The ten older brothers were feeding the flocks far to
the northward in the land they had seized from the
Shechemites; and Jacob bade Joseph " see whether
it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks;
and bring me word again."
So Joseph set forth. Reaching Shechem, he was
directed still farther north to a field called Dothan, a
fair open plain which men point out even to this day
as the scene of the brethren's treachery. " And when
they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto
them, they conspired against him to slay him." In
the picture, he approaches them in innocent serenity,
wondering perchance at their lack of welcome. They
cluster darkly around Reuben, the eldest, and whis-
per of their plot. Their secret jealousy was made
evident in their sneering words to one another: " And
we shall see what will become of his dreams."
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THE REVENGE AGAINST JOSEPH
BY HEINRICH SCHOPIN OR CHOPIN, A GERMAN
ARTIST, DIED 1880, PAINTER OF MANY
VIVID BIBLICAL SCENES.

" And they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the
pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty
pieces of silver."—Gen., 37, 28.

REUBEN, the eldest of Joseph's brothers, and
as yet the holder of the birthright, the
foremost place among them, was an unstable
and impulsive man, but not a deliberately evil one.
His heart revolted against the cold plotting of the
others to murder Joseph; and he proposed that in-
stead of shedding blood, they should lower Joseph
into one of the wells scattered about the plain of
Dothan, and thus leave him to a sure though blood-
less death. In secret, Reuben meant to return and
rescue Joseph. His brothers yielded to his counsel,
and the unsuspecting lad was seized and lowered into
a deep pit.
Afterward, when Reuben had gone away, a new
idea came to the others. Another among them, Ju-
dah, whose descendants were to be chief of the twelve
tribes of Israel, proved also too kind-hearted to do

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