10 So he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and ayour brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?”
11 And ahis brothers envied him, but his father bkept the matter inmind.
Joseph Sold by His Brothers
12 Then his brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
13 And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers feeding theflock in aShechem? Come, I will send you to them.” So he said to him, “Here I am.”
14 Then he said to 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 sent him out of the Valley of aHebron, and he went to Shechem.
15 Now a certain man found him, and there he was, wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, “What are you seeking?”
16 So he said, “I am seeking my brothers. aPlease tell me where they are feeding theirflocks.”
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 aDothan.
18 Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, athey conspired against him to kill him.
19 Then they said to one another, “Look, this1 dreamer is coming!
20aCome therefore, let 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 aReuben 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 they astripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him.
24 Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; therewas no water in it.
25aAnd they sat down to eat a meal. Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a company of bIshmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, cbalm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt.
26 So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit isthere if we kill our brother and aconceal his blood?
27 Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and alet not our hand be upon him, for he isbour brother andcour flesh.” And his brothers listened.
28 Then aMidianite traders passed by; so thebrothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, band sold him to the Ishmaelites for ctwenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
29 Then Reuben returned to the pit, and indeed Joseph was not in the pit; and he atore his clothes.
30 And he returned to his brothers and said, “The lad ais no more; and I, where shall I go?”
31 So they took aJoseph’s tunic, killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
32 Then they sent the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father and said, “We have found this. Do you know whether it is your son’s tunic or not?”
33 And he recognized it and said, “Itis my son’s tunic. A awild beast has devoured him. Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces.”
34 Then Jacob atore his clothes, put sackcloth on his waist, and bmourned for his son many days.
35 And all his sons and all his daughters aarose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, “For bI shall go down into the grave to my son in mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.
36 Now athe Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem—The vale of Shechem was, from the earliest mention of Canaan, blest with extraordinary abundance of water. Therefore did the sons of Jacob go from Hebron to this place, though it must have cost them near twenty hours' travelling—that is, at the shepherd rate, a little more than fifty miles. But the herbage there was so rich and nutritious that they thought it well worth the pains of so long a journey, to the neglect of the grazing district of Hebron [VAN DE VELDE].
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