28. Midianite traders passed by, and they pulled Joseph up out of the cistern. They sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
29. When Reuben went back to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not in it, he tore his garments,
30. and returning to his brothers, he exclaimed: “The boy is gone! And I—where can I turn?”