One day when Joseph's older brothers are taking care of their father's sheep,Jacob ask Joseph to go and see how they are getting along. When Joseph's brothers see him coming, some of them say: 'Let's kill him!' But Reuben, the oldest brother,says: 'No don't you do that!' Instead they grab Joseph and throw him into a dried-up water hole. About this time some Ishmaelit men come along. Judah says to his half brothers: 'Let's sell him to the Ishmaelites: And that's what they do.'They sell Joseph for 20 pieces of silver. How mean and unkind that was!(GENESIS 37:1-35.)