4z .LV 77/E PIT.

upright; and behold, your sheaves stood round about, and
bowed to my sheaf."
 How angry they were! Shalt thou reign over us ?"
they said, and hated him more than before.
 He dreamed again, and told his brothers and his
father too: Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; the
sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed to me."
His father said, Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren
indeed come to bow down to thee ?" But Joseph's words
were remembered by him, like those of another beloved
Son whose mother kept his sayings in her heart.
 Old Jacob the father had such great flocks of sheep
that there was not enough pasture-land close by, and he
sent part of them to feed in the fields of Shechem, many
miles away, and his sons to lead and watch them. After
they had been gone some time, he said to Joseph, "Go
and see if it be well with thy brethren, and bring me word
again." Joseph took the long journey alone, and when
he got to Shechem he found they had gone to Dothan,
and he followed them there. While he was still far off
they saw the gay coat, bright in the sunshine, and said
one to another, Look, this dreamer cometh." At first
they said, "Let us kill him and cast him in some pit,
and say some evil beast has eaten him; then we will
see what will become of his dreams." The eldest brother
Reuben said, Let us not kill him, but cast him into this
pit." Reuben wanted to save the boy after all.