They said: "Truly Joseph and his brother are loved more by our father than we: But we are a goodly body! really our
father is obviously wandering (in his mind)!
12:9
"Slay ye Joseph or cast him out to some (unknown) land, that so the favour of your father may be given to you alone:
(there will be time enough) for you to be righteous after that!"
12:10
Said one of them: "Slay not Joseph, but if ye must do something, throw him down to the bottom of the well: he will be
picked up by some caravan of travellers."
12:11
They said: "O our father! why dost thou not trust us with Joseph,- seeing we are indeed his sincere well-wishers.
12:12
"Send him with us tomorrow to enjoy himself and play, and we shall take every care of him."
12:13
(Jacob) said: "Really it saddens me that ye should take him away: I fear lest the wolf should devour him while ye attend
not to him."
12:14
They said: "If the wolf were to devour him while we are (so large) a party, then should we indeed (first) have perished
ourselves!"
12:15
So they did take him away, and they all agreed to throw him down to the bottom of the well: and We put into his heart
(this Message): 'Of a surety thou shalt (one day) tell them the truth of this their affair while they know (thee) not'
12:16
Then they came to their father in the early part of the night, weeping.
