9. Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “I have dreamed another dream. The sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing to me.”
10. But when he told it to his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers really come to bow down ourselves to you to the ground?”
11. So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
12. Now his brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
13. Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.”He answered, “Here I am.”
14. Israel 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 Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15. A certain man found him wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
16. And he said, “I am looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are feeding their flocks.”
17. The man said, “They have departed from here. I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ”So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
18. When they saw him some distance away, before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
19. They said one to another, “The master of dreams comes!
20. Come now, let us kill him and throw him into some pit, and we will say, ‘Some evil beast has devoured him.’ Then we will see what will become of his dreams.”
21. But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not kill him.”