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.