12Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.
13And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.
14And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?
16And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock.
17And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan.
18But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death;