Holy Scripture
Genesis 37:18
A church father on this verse
“Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose u…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18And they spied him from a distance before he drew nigh to them, and they wickedly took counsel to slay him.
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16And he said, I am seeking my brethren; tell me where they feed their flocks.
17And the man said to him, They have departed hence, for I heard them saying, Let us go to Dothan; and Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
— Genesis 37:18 —
19And each said to his brother, Behold, that dreamer comes.
20Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be.