16. And he said, “I am seeking my brothers. Please inform me where they are feeding their sheep.”
17. And the man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go towards Dothan.’ ” So Yosĕph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
18. And they saw him from a distance, and before he came near them, they plotted against him, to kill him.
19. And they said to each other, “See, this master of dreams is coming!
20. “Now, then, come and let us now kill him and throw him into some pit, and shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ Let us then see what comes of his dreams!”
21. But Re’uḇĕn heard and rescued him from their hands, and said, “Let us not take his life.”
22. And Re’uḇĕn said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him” – in order to rescue him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.
23. So it came to be, when Yosĕph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Yosĕph of his robe, the long robe which was on him.