Genesis 37:15–23
15 A man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, “1What 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 aDothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
18 1When they saw him from a distance and before he came close to them, they aplotted against him to put him to death.
19 They said to one another, “1Here comes this dreamer!
20 “Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and awe will say, ‘A wild beast devoured him.’ Then let us see what will become of his dreams!”
21 But aReuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands and said, “Let us not 1take 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 1reached his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his 2tunic, the varicolored tunic that was on him;