24. And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.
25. And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Calaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.
26. And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?
27. It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.
28. And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt.
29. And Ruben, returning to the pit, found not the boy:
30. And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear and whither shall I go?