28 Then ^eMidianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and ^fsold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels¹ of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.

29 When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he ^gtore his clothes 30 and returned to his brothers and said, “The boy ^his gone, and I, where shall I go?”