11:13 Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, “Alas, sovereign Lord! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!” ¹ 

11:14 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, ²  your relatives, ³  and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem ⁴  have said, ‘They have gone ⁵  far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’

11:16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little ⁶  sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’

11:17 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When I regather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands where you have been dispersed, I will give you back the country of Israel.’

11:18 “When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. 11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; ⁷  I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies ⁸  and I will give them tender hearts, ⁹  11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. ¹⁰ 

34:24 All the men who assembled at the city gate ⁶  agreed with ⁷  Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate ⁸  was circumcised. 34:25 In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword ⁹  and went to the unsuspecting city ¹⁰  and slaughtered every male. 34:26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left. 34:27 Jacob’s sons killed them ¹¹  and looted the city because their sister had been violated. ¹²  34:28 They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields. ¹³  34:29 They captured as plunder ¹⁴  all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought ruin ¹⁵  on me by making me a foul odor ¹⁶  among the inhabitants of the land – among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I ¹⁷  am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!” 34:31 But Simeon and Levi replied, ¹⁸  “Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”

37:15 When Joseph reached Shechem, ¹  a man found him wandering ²  in the field, so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?” 37:16 He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell ³  me where they are grazing their flocks.” 37:17 The man said, “They left this area, ⁴  for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

37:18 Now Joseph’s brothers ⁵  saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. 37:19 They said to one another, “Here comes this master of dreams! ⁶  37:20 Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild ⁷  animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!” ⁸ 

37:21 When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph ⁹  from their hands, ¹⁰  saying, ¹¹  “Let’s not take his life!” ¹²  37:22 Reuben continued, ¹³  “Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” ¹⁴  (Reuben said this ¹⁵  so he could rescue Joseph ¹⁶  from them ¹⁷  and take him back to his father.)

37:23 When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him ¹⁸  of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore. 37:24 Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; ¹⁹  there was no water in it.)

37:25 When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up ²⁰  and saw ²¹  a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt. ²²  37:26 Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 37:27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, ²³  for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed. ²⁴  37:28 So when the Midianite ²⁵  merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled ²⁶  him ²⁷  out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites ²⁸  then took Joseph to Egypt.