8. “Are you really going to reign over us? ” his brothers asked him. “Are you really going to rule us? ” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.
9. Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and 11 stars were bowing down to me.”
10. He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him. “What kind of dream is this that you have had? ” he said. “Are your mother and brothers and I going to come and bow down to the ground before you? ”
11. His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
12. His brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem.
13. Israel said to Joseph, “Your brothers, you know, are pasturing the flocks at Shechem. Get ready. I’m sending you to them.”“I’m ready,” Joseph replied.
14. Then Israel said to him, “Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.
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.”
22. Reuben also said to them, “Don’t shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him” — intending to rescue him from their hands and return him to his father.
23. When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped off his robe, the robe of many colors that he had on.
24. Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.