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.”