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Ioseph. man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let vs goe into Dothain. Ioseph therfore went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain. Who when they had seen him a farre off, before he came nigh them, they deuised to kil him: and spake among themselues: Behold the dreamer commeth, come, let vs kil him, and cast him into an old cesterne: and we wil say a naughtie wild beast hath deuoured him: and then it shal appeare what his dreames doe profite him. And Ruben hearing this, endeauoured to deliuer him out of their hands, and said: Do not take away his life, neither sheed ye bloud: but cast him into this cesterne that is in the wildernesse, and keep your hands harmeles: and he said this, desirous to deliuer him out of their hands, and to restore him to his father. As soone therfore as he came vnto his brethren, forthwith they stripped him out of his side coate, and of diuers colours, and cast him into the old cesterne, that had not water. And sitting to eate bread, they saw Ismaelites wayfaring men comming from Galaad, and their camels carying spices, and rosen, and mirrh into Ægypt. Iudas therfore said to his brethren: What auaileth it vs if we kil our brother, and conceale his bloud? It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not polluted: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren assented to his words. And when the Madianite marchants passed by, they drawing him out of the cesterne, sold him to the Ismaelites, for twentie pieces of siluer, who brought him into Ægypt. And Ruben returning to the cesterne, findeth not the boy: and renting his garments went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appeare, and whither shal I goe? And they tooke his coate, and dipped it in the blood of a kid which they had killed, sending some that should carie it to their father, and should say: This we haue found: see whether it be thy sonnes coate, or no. Which when the father acknowledged, he said: It is my sonnes coate, a naughtie wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath deuoured Ioseph. And tearing his garments, did on sackcloth, mourning his sonne a great time. And al his children being gathered together to asswage their fathers sorow, he would not take comfort, but said: I wil descend vnto my sonne ″ into hel, mourning. And whilest he perseuered in weeping, the Madianites sold Ioseph in Ægypt to Putiphar an Eunuch of Pharoes Master of the soldiers. Rh