Testament of Joseph

Chapter 16

  1. 1 Now the Memphian woman said to her husband: Buy the youth; for I hear, said she, that they are selling him.
  2. 2 And straightway she sent a eunuch to the
  3. 3 Ishmaelites, and asked them to sell me. But since the eunuch would not agree to buy me (at their price) he returned, having made trial of them, and he made known to his mistress that they asked a large price for their slave.
  4. 4 And she sent another eunuch, saying: Even though they demand two minas, give them, do not spare the gold; only buy the boy, and bring him to me.
  5. 5 The eunuch therefore went and gave them eighty pieces of gold, and he received me; but to the Egyptian woman he said: I have given a hundred.
  6. 6 And though I knew (this) I held my peace, lest the eunuch should be put to shame.