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Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us give consent to them so they will live among us."

And it happened that on the third day, while they were in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, each took his sword and came against the unsuspecting city and killed all the males.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem and went out.

The other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

They took their flocks and their cattle and their donkeys, and whatever was in the field.

They captured and plundered all that was in the houses—all their wealth, their little ones, and their women.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites! I am few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed—I and my household!"

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands, and the ornamental rings that were in their ears. And Jacob buried them under the oak which was near Shechem.

Then they set out on their journey, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, so that they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. And she had hard labor.

When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and were not able to speak peaceably to him.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers. And they hated him even more.

Then his brothers said to him, "Will you really rule over us?" And they hated him even more on account of his dream and because of his words.

And he said, "I am seeking my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are pasturing."

And the man said, "They have moved on from here, for I heard them saying, ‘Let us go to Dothan.'" Then Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.

And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

And it happened that as Joseph came to his brothers they stripped Joseph of his robe, the robe with long sleeves, that was upon him.

And they took him and threw him into the pit (the pit was empty; there was no water in it).

Then they sat down to eat some food. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead. And their camels were carrying aromatic gum and balm and spices on the way to Egypt.

Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and brought him up from the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt.