The Joseph Cycle Gen 37:12-36 Joseph's Brothers Sell Him Into Slavery 35 All his sons and all his daughters sought to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and said, 'No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.' Thus his father bewailed him.
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