27 Come and let us sell him to the Ishʹma·el·ites,+ and do not let our hand be upon him.+ After all, he is our brother, our flesh.” So they listened to their brother.+

5 And now our flesh is the same as the flesh of our brothers;+ our sons are the same as their sons, but here we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slaves,+ and there are some of our daughters already reduced; and there is no power in our hands while our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”

6 and the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem YOU have sold+ to the sons of the Greeks,*+ for the purpose of removing them far from their own territory;+