Genesis 37
37:1And Jacob dwelt in the land of which his father sojourned in the land of Canaan.
37:2These are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was ten and seven years old tending the sheep of his father with his brothers, being young among the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father. And they brought against Joseph a bad fault to Israel their father.
37:3But Jacob loved Joseph beyond all his sons, for he was to him the son of old age. And he made for him a colored garment.
37:4And his brothers seeing that the father was fond of him over all of his sons, they detested him, and were not able to speak to him, not one thing peaceable.
37:5And Joseph dreaming a dream, reported it to his brothers.
37:6And he said to them, Hear this dream which I dreamed!
37:7I imagined you all were binding sheaves in the middle of the plain. And there rose up my sheaf, and it was straight up. And your sheaves moving around, did obeisance to my sheaf.
37:8And his brothers said to him, Do you mean in reigning you will reign over us, or in dominating you will dominate us? And they added still to detest him because of his dreams, and because of his words.
37:9And he saw another dream. And he described it to his father, and to his brothers. And he said, Behold, I dreamed another dream; as if the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars did obeisance to me.
37:10And his father reproached him, and said to him, What is this dream which you dreamed? Is it so indeed in having come I will come also, and your mother, and your brothers, to do obeisance to you upon the ground?
37:11And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the saying.
37:12And his brothers went to graze the sheep of their father in Shechem.
37:13And Israel said to Joseph, Did not your brothers tend in Shechem? Come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Behold, I am ready.
37:14And Israel said to him, In going see if your brothers are in health and the sheep, and announce it to me! And he sent him from the valley of Hebron. And he came into Shechem.
37:15And a man found him wandering in the plain. And the man asked him, saying, What do you seek?
37:16And he said, I seek my brothers; report to me where they graze!
37:17And the man said to him, They have departed from here. For I heard them saying, Let us go unto Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
37:18And they spied him far off before his approaching to them. And they acted wickedly to kill him.
37:19And said each to his brother, Behold, that dreamer comes.
37:20Now then, come, let us kill him and toss him into one of the wells! And we shall say, A ferocious wild beast devoured him. And we shall see what will be of his dreams.
37:21And Reuben hearing, rescued him from out of their hands. And he said, Do not strike him as far as his life.
37:22And Reuben said to them, You should not shed blood, put him into one of these wells of the ones in the wilderness, and bear not a hand against him, that he might rescue him from out of their hands, and that he might give him to his father.
37:23And it came to pass when Joseph came to his brothers, they took the colored garment off Joseph, the one around him.
37:24And taking him, they tossed him into the well. But the well was empty, it did not have water.
37:25And they sat to eat bread. And looking up with the eyes they saw. And behold, journeying Ishmaelites having come from Gilead, and their camels full of incenses, and balm, and balsam. And they were going leading down into Egypt.
37:26And Judah said to his brothers, What profit if we kill our brother, and hide his blood?
37:27Come let us give him to these Ishmaelites, and the hands of ours, let them not be upon him! for he is our brother, and he is our flesh. And his brothers hearkened.
37:28And the men came near, the Midianite merchants, and they drew out and hauled Joseph from out of the well. And the Ishmaelites rendered for Joseph twenty pieces of gold. And they led Joseph into Egypt.
37:29And Ruben returned upon the well, and he did not see Joseph in the well, and he tore his clothes.
37:30And he turned towards his brothers, and he said, The boy is not, and I, where shall I go yet?
37:31And taking the garment of Joseph, they slew a kid of the goats, and tainted the garment in the blood.
37:32And they sent the colored garment, and they carried it to their father, and said, This we found, do you recognize if the garment is of your son or not?
37:33And he recognized it, and said, The garment is of my son, a ferocious wild beast devoured him, a wild beast seized Joseph.
37:34And Jacob tore his clothes, and placed sackcloth upon his loin, and mourned for his son many days.
37:35And all his sons and daughters came together. And they came to comfort him, and he did not want to be comforted, saying that, I will go down to my son in mourning into Hades. And his father wept for him.
37:36And the Midianites gave Joseph into Egypt to Potiphar the castrato of Pharaoh -- the chief guard.