EXTRA · Parashas Vayeishev · Passuk 37:27 · not a Torah Temimah citation on this passuk
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let us not do away with him ourselves. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed.
Classical source (EXTRA side-ring): Bereshis Rabbah 84:17.
Sefaria — Bereshis Rabbah 84:17
English: “Come, let us sell him to the Yishme’eilim” — Yehudah said to them: What profit is there if we kill our brother?
Derash on the verse (Bereshis Rabbah) — not a formal named middah of the 13. The sale is framed as Yehudah’s alternative to bloodshed.
Yehudah’s intervention saves Yosef from immediate death, even while consenting to the sale.