10. But when he told it to his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers really come to bow down ourselves to you to the ground?”
11. So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
12. Now his brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
13. Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.”He answered, “Here I am.”
14. Israel said to him, “Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15. A certain man found him wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
16. And he said, “I am looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are feeding their flocks.”
17. The man said, “They have departed from here. I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ”So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
18. When they saw him some distance away, before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
19. They said one to another, “The master of dreams comes!
20. Come now, let us kill him and throw him into some pit, and we will say, ‘Some evil beast has devoured him.’ Then we will see what will become of his dreams.”
21. But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not kill him.”
22. Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood, but throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him,” so that he might rescue him out of their hands and deliver him to his father again.
23. When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his coat—his coat of many colors that he had on.
24. And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty, and there was no water in it.
25. Then they sat down to eat. And looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, carrying it down to Egypt.
26. Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?