10. When he told it to his father and his brothers, his father reproved him and asked, “What is the meaning of this dream of yours? Can it be that I and your mother and your brothers are to come and bow to the ground before you?”
11. So his brothers were furious at him but his father kept the matter in mind.
12. One day, when his brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem,
13. Israel said to Joseph, “Are your brothers not tending our flocks at Shechem? Come and I will send you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph answered.
14. “Go then,” he replied; “see if all is well with your brothers and the flocks, and bring back word.” So he sent him off from the valley of Hebron. When Joseph reached Shechem,
15. a man came upon him as he was wandering about in the fields. “What are you looking for?” the man asked him.
16. “I am looking for my brothers,” he answered. “Please tell me where they are tending the flocks.”
17. The man told him, “They have moved on from here; in fact, I heard them say, ‘Let us go on to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
18. They saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
19. They said to one another: “Here comes that dreamer!
20. Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here; we could say that a wild beast devoured him. We will see then what comes of his dreams.”
21. But when Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from their hands, saying: “We must not take his life.”