27: Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.
28: And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.
Gen. 37
Ok here it is in the beginning of the Bible. Brothers are selling brothers into slavery. Things can only improve from here. At least these days we feel some guilt about slavery or even wage slavery which could be worse in many ways than the classical kind.
The message for me is double. 1st don't count on decent treatment. 2nd even when awful things are done you can still make good from them. We know that Joseph prospers in Egypt and even saves the family from starvation a few years later.
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