13. Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered:
14. I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:
15. And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.
16. But he answered: I seek my brethren; tell me where they feed the docks.
17. And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.
18. And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him.
19. And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.
20. Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:
21. And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, end said:
22. Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father.
23. And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:
24. And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.
25. And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Calaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.