While they were eating, they suddenly saw a group of Ishmaelites traveling from Gilead to Egypt. Their camels were loaded with spices and resins.

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

(SEE 2:15)

The woman's name was Cozbi. Zur, her father, was chief of a group of Midianite clans.

"Attack the Midianites and destroy them,

"Punish the Midianites for what they did to the people of Israel. After you have done that, you will die."

So Moses said to the people, "Get ready for war, so that you can attack Midian and punish them for what they did to the LORD.

including the five kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed Balaam son of Beor.

The people of Israel captured the Midianite women and children, took their cattle and their flocks, plundered all their wealth,

Once again the people of Israel sinned against the LORD, so he let the people of Midian rule them for seven years.

Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites would come with the Amalekites and the desert tribes and attack them.

Do to them what you did to the Midianites, and to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

Great caravans of camels will come, from Midian and Ephah. They will come from Sheba, bringing gold and incense. People will tell the good news of what the LORD has done!

Then Joseph said to them, "Please come closer." They did, and he said, "I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.

Now do not be upset or blame yourselves because you sold me here. It was really God who sent me ahead of you to save people's lives.

But he sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.

I said to them, "If you are willing, give me my wages. But if not, keep them." So they paid me thirty pieces of silver as my wages.

The LORD said to me, "Put them in the Temple treasury." So I took the thirty pieces of silver---the magnificent sum they thought I was worth---and put them in the Temple treasury.

and asked, "What will you give me if I betray Jesus to you?" They counted out thirty silver coins and gave them to him.

Then what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true: "They took the thirty silver coins, the amount the people of Israel had agreed to pay for him,

"Jacob's sons became jealous of their brother Joseph and sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him