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Testament of Zebulun 3
Zebulun testifies that he took no share in the price of Joseph, while eight brothers bought sandals with the blood money — openly declaring they would trample Joseph's claim to rule over them. The text then anchors this act in the law of Enoch: those who refuse to raise up seed to a brother lose his sandal publicly. The fulfillment is precise: in Egypt, Joseph's servants unloosed the brothers' sandals at the gate, and the brothers bowed and were spat upon before Pharaoh's court — their own declared contempt for Joseph's dreamed authority executed upon themselves as covenant judgment.
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For in the price of Joseph, my children, I had no share; but Simeon and Gad and six other of our brethren took the price of Joseph, and bought sandals for themselves, their wives, and their children, saying, We will not eat of it, for it is the price of our brother’s blood, but will tread it down under foot, because he said that he was king over us, and so let us see what his dreams mean. Therefore is it written in the writing of the law of Enoch, that whosoever will not raise up seed to his brother, his sandal shall be unloosed, and they shall spit into his face. And the brethren of Joseph wished not that their brother should live, and the Lord loosed unto them the sandal of Joseph. For when they came into Egypt they were unloosed by the servants of Joseph before the gate, and so made obeisance to Joseph after the fashion of Pharaoh. And not only did they make obeisance to him, but were spit upon also, falling down before him forthwith, and so they were put to shame before the Egyptians; for after this the Egyptians heard all the evils which we had done to Joseph.
