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When they said, "Joseph and his brother1 are more beloved to our father than we, while we are a clan. Indeed, our father is in clear error.

              

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Kill Joseph or cast him out to [another] land; the countenance [i.e., attention] of your father will [then] be only for you, and you will be after that a righteous people."1

                

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Said a speaker among them, "Do not kill Joseph but throw him into the bottom of the well; some travelers will pick him up - if you would do [something]."

           

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They said, "O our father, why do you not entrust us with Joseph while indeed, we are to him sincere counselors?

        

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Send him with us tomorrow that he may eat well and play. And indeed, we will be his guardians."

             

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[Jacob] said, "Indeed, it saddens me that you should take him, and I fear that a wolf would eat him while you are of him unaware."

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They said, "If a wolf should eat him while we are a [strong] clan, indeed, we would then be losers."

                 

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So when they took him [out] and agreed to put him into the bottom of the well...1 But We inspired to him, "You will surely inform them [someday] about this affair of theirs while they do not perceive [your identity]."

    

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And they came to their father at night, weeping.

                  

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They said, "O our father, indeed we went racing each other and left Joseph with our possessions, and a wolf ate him. But you would not believe us, even if we were truthful."