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Genesis 37
¹⁵ A man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
¹⁶ He said, "I am looking for my brothers; please tell me where they are pasturing the flock."
¹⁷ Then the man said, "They have moved from here; for I heard them say, ’Let us go to Dothan.’" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
¹⁸ When they saw him from a distance and before he came close to them, they plotted against him to put him to death.
¹⁹ They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer!
²⁰ Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, ’A wild beast devoured him.’ Then let us see what will become of his dreams!"
²¹ But Reuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands and said, "Let us not take his life."
²² Reuben further said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him"-that he might rescue him out of their hands, to restore him to his father.
²³ So it came about, when Joseph reached his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the varicolored tunic that was on him;
²⁴ and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.
²⁵ Then they sat down to eat a meal. And as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing aromatic gum and balm and myrrh, on their way to bring them down to Egypt.