Midyanim who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Yosef out of the pit, and sold Yosef to the Yishme`elim for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Yosef into Egypt.
There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nevukhadnetzar 1, king of Bavel, came Nevuzar'adan 1 the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Bavel, to Yerushalayim.
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Bizeta, Charvona, Bigta, and Avagta, Zetar, and Karkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Achashverosh the king,
Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, the LORD will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
Then Nevuzar'adan 1 the captain of the guard carried away captive into Bavel the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.