Now when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained [servants] who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

Then Abram said, "Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!"

"But every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.

"If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

"Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he [is] our brother [and] our flesh." And his brothers listened.

Now the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh [and] captain of the guard.

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there.

"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free and pay nothing.

" He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

"Yet now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and [some] of our daughters have been brought into slavery. [It is] not in our power [to redeem them,] for other men have our lands and vineyards."

And I said to them, "According to our ability we have redeemed our Jewish brethren who were sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brethren? Or should they be sold to us?" Then they were silenced and found nothing [to say.]

"But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made.