Answer: Jacob
Joseph was the son of Jacob and the grandson of Laban. Reuben was the oldest of Joseph's brothers.
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Answer: Jacob
Joseph was the son of Jacob and Rachel. Rachel was Jacob's second and favorite wife.
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Answer: Rachel
Jacob worked for seven years for Laban to marry his beautiful daughter, Rachel. At the end of that time, he was permitted to marry Leah, the eldest daughter. Jacob was so in love with Rachel that he worked for seven more years to marry her, and she was his favorite wife. Zilpah and Bilhah were his concubines. Genesis 35:23.
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Answer: Rachel
Joseph was Rachel's oldest son. Jacob married Leah first. Rachel gave Jacob two sons: Joseph and Benjamin.
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Answer: Kill him
Initially they wanted to kill him. They were only afterwards convinced to sell him.
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Answer: his brothers
In Genesis 37:26-28, Joseph's brothers sold him to the Ishmaelites because he was the favorite of their father Jacob.
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Answer: Reuben
Genesis 37:21-22 "When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. 'Let's not take his life,' he said. 'Don't shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the desert, but don't lay a hand on him.' Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father."
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Answer: Potiphar
In Genesis 39:1, Potiphar was the officer of Pharoah. Joseph served Potiphar and later became a leader in Egypt.
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Answer: Midianites
Instead of killing him directly, his brothers sold him to the Midianites (also known as the Ishmaelites) for 20 shekels of silver. They then made it look as though he was killed by an animal, so that their father would not know.
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Answer: 17
Genesis 37:2 states that Joseph was seventeen, and later verses state that his brothers got the idea to kill him. They then amended the idea, and sold him to the Ishmaelites.
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