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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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ce among them, was an unstableand impulsive man, but not a deliberately evil one.His heart revolted against the cold plotting of theothers to murder Joseph; and he proposed that in-stead of shedding blood, they should lower Josephinto one of the wells scattered about the plain ofDothan, and thus leave him to a sure though blood-less death. In secret, Reuben meant to return andrescue Joseph. His brothers yielded to his counsel,and the unsuspecting lad was seized and lowered intoa deep pit. Afterward, when Reuben had gone away, a newidea came to the others. Another among them, Ju-dah, whose descendants were to be chief of the twelvetribes of Israel, proved also too kind-hearted to domurder. A caravan of traveling merchants, Ishmael-ites, passed by; and Judah said unto his brethren,What profit is it if we slay our brother, and concealhis blood? Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, andlet not our hand be upon him; for he is our brotherand our flesh: and his brethren were content.
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®f)e ploobp Coat FROM THE SERIES BY HEINRICH SCHOPIN. And they brought it to their father; and said.This have we found: know now ivhether it be thy sonscoat or no.—Gen., 37, 82. IT IS pathetic indeed to think of the sorrows thatpursued Jacob through all his life. Never wasearly guilt more fully punished. He had be-trayed his father; now his sons united to betray him.Joseph had possessed a gorgeous coat of many col-ors, given him by his father as a mark of preemi-nence. His brothers sold him, dipped this coat inblood and brought it to Jacob, declaring they hadfound it thus in the wilderness, and adding, with re-sentful sarcasm, that Jacob might recognize it, thoughthey did not. The father cried out that some wildbeast must have devoured Joseph. And all his sonsand all his daughters rose up to comfort him; buthe refused to be comforted; and he said. For I willgo down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thushis father wept for him. The artist Schopin has powerfully conceived thescene

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