When Judah and the other brothers sold Joseph, they kept his coat, and, killing a goat, they clipped the coat in the blood. Then they carried it home to their father, and did not tell him what they had done, but said, “This have we found: know now whether it be thy son’s coat or no.” Jacob knew the coat, and said, “It is my son’s coat; an evil beast path devoured him.” And he wept and sorrowed greatly for Joseph. But Joseph was not dead, although it was many years before his father saw him again.
How wicked the brothers were to act as they did, and all because they would but be sorry for their own sinful ways! They kept the hatred to Joseph in their hearts till it grew more and more.
But God cared for Joseph in Egypt and you will like to read of him there, and of how his brothers at last had to own their sin to him.
The story of Joseph always makes us think of how the Lord Jesus was also hated. He said, “They that hate me without a cause” (Ps. 69:4), and He was sold for but a little more than Joseph—for 30 pieces of silver.
20 pieces of silver are said to have been worth about $12.00, and you can easily count about how much 30 pieces would be worth.
ML 10/18/1936