When euben saw that Joseph was not in the pit , he tore his clothes and beat his chest.
First the brothers of Joseph wanted to kill him. But the eldest brother Reuben, said why do this evil deed , lets bury him in a pit. The idea of Reuben was to save him later. But when Reuben was not there the brothers sold him to traders.
As all the brothers of Joseph were jealous of him and his dreams, they first wanted to kill him but Reuben did not want him killed, so he was put in a pit. And was sold to traders when reuben was not there.
They wanted to kill Joseph. But Reuben said lets put him in a pit. But the brothers sold him as a slave to traders.
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Judah did not want Joseph to be killed and preferred selling him to the Ishmeelites. Reuben also did not want to kill Joseph. He suggested they throw him into the cistern and secretly planned to save and return him to their father later, but his brothers sold Joseph in his absence.
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Joseph had another son named Manasseh. Manasseh and Ephraim were both born to Joseph and Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
JacobAnswer:Genesis 37:20-22 - "Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, 'Some wild beast has devoured him.' We shall see what will become of his dreams!"But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, "Let us not kill him." And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him" - that he might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.[NKJV]
Reuben was the eldest son of Jacob and Leah. He lost his birthright to Joseph(The first born son of Jacob and Rachel) and it was Joseph who received the blessing from Jacob, which should have gone to Reuben. Reuben became an enemy of Joseph for many years but finally made up. The tribe of Reuben became of less importance politically, and its members became less as the years went by.
Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob (Genesis ch.29) and ancestor of the Israelite tribe that bears his name. He played a part in the saving of his half-brother Joseph (see Genesis ch.37). The inheritance of the tribe of Reuben was in the Transjordan (Numbers ch.32).
The two sons of Jacob were Reuben and Joseph.
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