Genesis 37:18-28 And seeing him are they from afar, and ere he is coming near to them. And plotting are they against him among themselves to put him to death.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ And seeing him are they from afar, and ere he is coming near to them. And plotting are they against him among themselves to put him to death. ¹⁹ And saying is each man to his brother, "Behold! This possessor of dreams is coming!" ²⁰ And now go, and we will kill him and fling him into one of the cisterns and say, `An evil animal devoured him,' and see will we what will become of his dreams. ²¹ And hearing of it is Reuben, and rescuing him is he out of their hands. And saying is he, "Not smite will we his soul. ²² And saying to them is Reuben, "You must not shed blood. Fling him into this cistern which is in the wilderness, yet a hand you, you must not stretch out against him,--that he may rescue him from their hands, to restore him to his father. ²³ And coming is it, as Joseph comes to his brothers, that they are stripping Joseph of his tunic, the distinctive tunic which is on him. ²⁴ And taking him are they, and flinging him into the cistern. Yet the cistern was empty. No water was in it. ²⁵ And sitting down are they to eat bread. And lifting are they their eyes and seeing, and behold! A caravan of Ishmaelites are coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing perfume and balm and labdanum, going by to go down to Egypt. ²⁶ And saying is Judah to his brothers, "What gain is it that we kill our brother and cover his blood? ²⁷ Go, and we will sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hand must not come to be against him, for our brother and our flesh is he.And hearkening are his brothers. ²⁸ And passing are mortals, Midianites, merchants. And drawing are they and bringing up Joseph from the cistern, and are selling Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silverlings. And bringing are they Joseph to Egypt.