15. a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, ‘What are you looking for?’
16. He replied, ‘I’m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?’
17. ‘They have moved on from here,’ the man answered. ‘I heard them say, “Let’s go to Dothan.” ’So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan.
18. But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
19. ‘Here comes that dreamer!’ they said to each other.
20. ‘Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.’
21. When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. ‘Let’s not take his life,’ he said.