They said to each other, “Here comes this dream expert.
He had a dream of a stairway securely fixed on the earth and reaching into heaven. And there were messengers of God ascending and descending on the stairway.
Persecutors fiercely attacked him; they pursued him with their bow and arrows.
So his brothers grew more jealous of him, but his father kept pondering Joseph’s dream.
One night Joseph had a dream, and when he shared it with his brothers, they hated him even more!
As he was still a long distance away, the brothers recognized him by his robe, and by the time he reached them, they had plotted together to kill him.
Let’s kill him and throw his body into one of these dry wells. We can say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”