³⁶ and ^(A)‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’

⁸ Now Cain ^[a]talked with Abel his ^[b]brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and ^(A)killed him.

⁹ Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?”

He said, ^(B)“I do not know. Am I ^(C)my brother’s keeper?”

¹⁰ And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood ^(D)cries out to Me from the ground.

¹¹ And David said to Abishai and all his servants, “See how ^(A)my son who ^(B)came from my own body seeks my life. How much more now may this Benjamite? Let him alone, and let him curse; for so the Lord has ordered him.

¹⁷ And the man said, “They have departed from here, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in ^(A)Dothan.

¹⁸ Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, ^(B)they conspired against him to kill him. ¹⁹ Then they said to one another, “Look, this ^[a]dreamer is coming! ^20 (C)Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!”

²¹ But ^(D)Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, “Let us not kill him.” ²² And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.

²³ So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they ^(E)stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him. ²⁴ Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it.

^25 (F)And they sat down to eat a meal. Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a company of ^(G)Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, ^(H)balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt. ²⁶ So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and ^(I)conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and ^(J)let not our hand be upon him, for he is ^(K)our brother and ^(L)our flesh.” And his brothers listened. ²⁸ Then ^(M)Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, ^(N)and sold him to the Ishmaelites for ^(O)twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.