Genesis 37:25-27

You have to be pretty angry with someone to throw them in a pit and you continue on as if it didn’t happen. The brothers were sitting down to eat when Judah saw the caravan of camels. Traders were headed through & down to Egypt.

While I’m glad Judah spoke up, honestly, selling him to slavery for money as terrible as well. “What will we gain?” He asked. So he sold him for 20 pieces of silver. That was so selfish in my opinion.

One thing we must know, Reuben, Jacob’s first born, didn’t want anything to happen to Joseph, and he was not there when they sold him to the traders. He went back to the cistern to get him out, only to discover that he was gone.(Genesis 37:29-30) This is honorable, because as we have established, the first born gets everything. So he was not threatened by Joseph, and he probably knew how heart broken their dad was going to be.

I have felt unwanted and unloved before, but not to this degree. (Maybe you have to.) I can’t imagine my own siblings hating me to the point of selling me into slavery-not knowing OR caring what could end up happening. Thankfully, Joseph was protected by God and resilient. We have 2 more days to see what else he went through & how God used him.