16. So he responded: "I seek my brothers. Tell me where they pasture the flocks."
17. And the man said to him: "They have withdrawn from this place. But I heard them saying, 'Let us go to Dothan.' " Therefore, Joseph continued on after his brothers, and he found them at Dothan.
18. And, when they had seen him from afar, before he approached them, they decided to kill him.
19. And they said one to another: "Behold, the dreamer approaches.
20. Come, let us kill him and cast him into the old cistern. And let us say: 'an evil wild beast has devoured him.' And then it will become apparent what his dreams will do for him."
21. But Reuben, on hearing this, strove to free him from their hands, and he said:
22. "Do not take away his life, nor shed blood. But throw him into this cistern, which is in the wilderness, and so keep your hands harmless." But he said this, wanting to rescue him from their hands, so as to return him to his father.