²⁸ When some Midianite traders passed by, they drew Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.^(A)

⁹ “The patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him^(A)

⁴ Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come closer to me.” And they came closer. He said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.^{(A) 5} And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.^(B)

² She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.^(A)

The Midianite Oppression

6 The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.^{(A) 2} The hand of Midian prevailed over Israel, and because of Midian the Israelites provided for themselves hiding places in the mountains, caves and strongholds. ³ For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.^(B)

³⁶ Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.^(A)

²⁵ Then they sat down to eat, and looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying gum, balm, and resin, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.^(A)

⁹ Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah,^[a] “And they took^[b] the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one on whom a price had been set,^[c] on whom some of the people of Israel had set a price,^(A)

¹⁵ and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver.^(A)