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Genesis 37: Who Sold Joseph?
Yaakov favors Yosef. Yosef has his two dreams that even rankle Yaakov. Yaakov sends Yosef to spy on his brothers and then… what happens?
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat depicts the most common explanation: the brothers plot to throw Yosef into a pit and leave him there to die (the musical even captures the Rashi about snakes in the pit). Instead, a group of Ishmaelites pass by and the brothers decide to sell Yosef to them for silver.
The problem is the text does not seem to follow this version.
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בראשית ל״ז:י״ח
וַיִּרְא֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ…
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