10. And he told it to his father [as well as] his brethren. But his father rebuked him and said to him, What is the meaning of this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow down ourselves to the earth and do homage to you?
11. Joseph's brothers envied him and were jealous of him, but his father observed the saying and pondered over it.
12. Joseph's brothers went to shepherd and feed their father's flock near Shechem.
13. [One day] Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers shepherd my flock at Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. And he said, Here I am.
14. And [Jacob] said to him, Go, I pray you, see whether everything is all right with your brothers and with the flock; then come back and bring me word. So he sent him out of the Hebron Valley, and he came to Shechem.
15. And a certain man found him, and behold, he had lost his way and was wandering in the open country. The man asked him, What are you trying to find?
16. And he said, I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, I pray you, where they are pasturing our flocks.
17. But the man said, [They were here, but] they have gone. I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
18. And when they saw him far off, even before he came near to them, they conspired to kill him.
19. And they said one to another, See, here comes this dreamer and master of dreams.
20. So come on now, let us kill him and throw his body into some pit; then we will say [to our father], Some wild and ferocious animal has devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams!
21. Now Reuben heard it and he delivered him out of their hands by saying, Let us not kill him.
22. And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit or well that is out here in the wilderness and lay no hand on him. He was trying to get Joseph out of their hands in order to rescue him and deliver him again to his father.
23. When Joseph had come to his brothers, they stripped him of his [distinctive] long garment which he was wearing;
24. Then they took him and cast him into the [well-like] pit which was empty; there was no water in it.