15 A man found him there, wandering in the field, and asked him, “What are you looking for? ”
16 “I’m looking for my brothers,” Joseph said. “Can you tell me where they are pasturing their flocks? ”
17 “They’ve moved on from here,” the man said. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
18 They saw him in the distance, and before he had reached them, they plotted to kill him.
19 They said to one another, “Here comes that dreamer!
20 Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal ate him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams! ”
21 When Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from them. He said, “Let’s not take his life.”