3. Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.
4. And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
5. Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.
6. And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.
7. I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, end stood, and your sheaves standing about, bowed down before my sheaf.
8. His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.
9. He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.
10. And when he had told this to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?
11. His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.
12. And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their father's docks,
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: