is rejected by God is instrumental in enslaving the branch chosen by God to be exalted above the others by his dreams.2 Then Reuben enters the picture again. Where he had been, no one knows! But all of a sudden, he re-appears. 29 Now Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his garments. Reuben knows that this will only translate into even less favor with his father. As the firstborn, he would have been responsible for Joseph’s welfare. 30 He returned to his brothers
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