13 And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your
brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.” So he
said to him, “Here I am.”
14 Then he said o him, “Please go and see if it is well with
your brothers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me.” So he went
him out o the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.
15 Now a certain man found him and there he was, wandering
in the field. And he man asked him,
saying, “What are you seeking?”
16 So he said, “I am seeking my brothers. Please tell me where
they are feeing their flocks.”
17 And the man said, “They have departed from here, for I
heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and
found them in Dothan.
18 Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them,
they conspired against him to kill him.
19 Then they said to one anther, “Look, this dreamer is
coming!
20 “Come therefore, le us now kill him and cast him into
some pit; and we shall say, “Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see
what will become of his dreams!”
21 But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their
hands, and said, “Let us not kill him.”
22 And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood, but cast him
into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him”—that he
might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.
23 So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers,
that hey stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on
him.
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