16 “I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?” 17 “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan. 18 Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.
Genesis 37:16–18
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