“Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.”
So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt. The sale for twenty shekels of silver — approximately the price of a young male slave in the ancient Near East — is the first of the biblical betrayals by silver. Matthew 26:15 records the thirty pieces of silver paid for Jesus. The application: the silver paid for Joseph is the silver that anticipates the silver paid for the one who is greater than Joseph.
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