Genesis 37:18-24

181When they saw him from a distance and before he came close to them, they 2plotted against him to put him to death. 19They said to one another, “3Here comes this dreamer! 20Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and 4we will say, ‘A wild beast devoured him.’ Then let us see what will become of his dreams!” 21But 5Reuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands and said, “Let us not 6take his life.” 22Reuben further said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him”--that he might rescue him out of their hands, to restore him to his father. 23So it came about, when Joseph 7reached his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his 8tunic, the varicolored tunic that was on him; 24and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.