Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons because he was born to him in his old age, and he made him a special richly ornamented robe which made his brothers extremely jealous. Joseph dreamt that when binding sheaves of corn with his brothers, his sheaf rose and stood upright whilst all his brothers' sheaves bowed down to it. The brothers' jealousy and anger only grew with this as they accused Joseph of having intentions to rule over them. Then Joseph had a further dream in which the sun, moon and stars bowed down to him. His brothers' jealousy grew even stronger but Israel kept the matter in his mind. Then one day Joseph went to see if his brothers were alright grazing the flocks near Dothan and when his brothers saw him coming in the distance their jealousy and anger led them to plot to kill him. Reuben convinced them not to kill him but they stripped him of his ornamented robe and threw him into an empty cistern. When some Midianite merchants came by the brothers sold Joseph to them as a slave for 0.2 kilos of silver and they took him to Egypt where they sold him to Potiphar who was Pharoah's captain of the guard. They then dipped his coloured coat in blood and presented it to their father as evidence that he had been devoured by some wild beast so Israel wept and mourned Joseph's presumed death.
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