6. And he said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have dreamed:
7. “See, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field, and see, my sheaf rose up and also stood up. And see, your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.”
8. And his brothers said to him, “Shall you indeed reign over us? Shall you indeed rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
9. And he dreamed still another dream and related it to his brothers, and said, “See, I have dreamed another dream, and see, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”
10. And he related 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 we, your mother and I and your brothers, indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?”
11. And his brothers envied him, but his father guarded the word.
12. And his brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Sheḵem.
13. And Yisra’ĕl said to Yosĕph, “Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Sheḵem? Come, I send you to them.” So he said to him, “Here I am.”
14. And he said to him, “Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the sheep, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him out of the Valley of Ḥeḇron, and he went to Sheḵem.
15. And a certain man found him, and see, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, “What do you seek?”
16. And he said, “I am seeking my brothers. Please inform me where they are feeding their sheep.”
17. And the man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go towards Dothan.’ ” So Yosĕph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
18. And they saw him from a distance, and before he came near them, they plotted against him, to kill him.
19. And they said to each other, “See, this master of dreams is coming!
20. “Now, then, come and let us now kill him and throw him into some pit, and shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ Let us then see what comes of his dreams!”
21. But Re’uḇĕn heard and rescued him from their hands, and said, “Let us not take his life.”