Genesis 37:21-23

21But 1Reuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands 2by saying, “Let’s not 3take his life.”

22Then Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him”--so that later he might rescue him out of their hands, to return him to his father.

23So it came about, when Joseph 4reached his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the 5multicolored tunic that was on him;