gift from heaven, comparable to if a human being had given them a treasure. In modern interpretation The parashah is discussed in these modern sources: Genesis chapters 37–50 Donald Seybold schematized the Joseph narrative in the chart below, finding analogous relationships in each of Joseph's households. Ephraim Speiser argued that in spite of its surface unity, the Joseph story, on closer scrutiny, yields two parallel strands similar in general outline, yet markedly different in detail. The Jahwist's version employed the Tetragrammaton and the name "Israel". In that version, Judah persuaded his brothers not to kill Joseph but sell him instead to Ishmaelites, who disposed of him in Egypt to an unnamed official. Joseph's new master promoted him to the position of chief retainer. When the brothers were on their way home from their first mission to Egypt with grain, they opened their bags at a night stop and were shocked to find the payment for their purchases. Judah persuaded his father to let Benjamin accompany them on a second journey to Egypt. Judah finally convinced Joseph that the brothers had really reformed. Joseph invited Israel to settle with his family in Goshen. The Elohist’s parallel account, in contrast, consistently used the names "Elohim" and "Jacob". Reuben – not Judah – saved Joseph from his brothers; Joseph was left in an empty cistern, where he was picked up, unknown to the brothers, by Midianites; they – not the Ishmaelites – sold Joseph as a slave to an Egyptian named Potiphar. In that lowly position, Joseph served – not supervised – the other prisoners. The brothers opened their sacks – not bags – at home in Canaan – not at an encampment along the way. Reuben – not Judah – gave Jacob – not Israel – his personal guarantee of Benjamin's safe return. Pharaoh – not Joseph – invited Jacob and his family to settle in Egypt – not just Goshen. Speiser concluded that the Joseph story can thus be traced back to two once separate, though now intertwined, accounts. John Kselman noted that as in the Jacob cycle that precedes it, the Joseph narrative begins with the deception of a father by his offspring through an article of clothing; the deception leads to the separation of brothers for 20 years; and the climax of the story comes with the reconciliation of estranged brothers and the abatement of family strife. Kselman reported