_Remember_, when Joseph [Yoosuf] said unto his father, O my father, verily I saw _in sleep_ eleven stars and the sun and the moon: I saw them making obeisance unto me. He replied, O my child, relate not thy vision to thy brethren, lest they contrive a plot against thee, _knowing its interpretation to be that they are the stars and that the sun is thy mother and the moon thy father_; for the devil is unto man a manifest enemy. And thus, _as thou sawest_, thy Lord will choose thee, and teach thee the interpretation of events, _or dreams_, and will accomplish his favour upon thee _by the gift of prophecy_, and upon the family of Jacob, as He accomplished it upon thy fathers before, Abraham and Isaac; for thy Lord is knowing [and] wise.—Verily in _the history of_ Joseph and his brethren are signs to the inquirers.—When they (_the brethren of Joseph_) said, _one to another_, Verily Joseph and his brother _Benjamin_ are dearer unto our father than we, and we are a number of men; verily our father is in a manifest error; slay ye Joseph, or drive him away into a _distant_ land; so the face of your father shall be directed alone unto you, _regarding no other_, and ye shall be after it a just people:—a speaker among them, _namely, Judah_, said, Slay not Joseph, but throw him to the bottom of the well; then some of the travellers may light upon him, if ye do _this_. _And they were satisfied therewith_. They said, O our father, wherefore dost thou not intrust us with Joseph, when verily we are faithful unto him? Send him with us tomorrow _into the plain_, that he may divert himself and sport; and we will surely take care of him.—He replied, Verily your taking him away will grieve me, and I fear lest the wolf devour him while ye are heedless of him. They said, Surely if the wolf devour him, when we are a number of men, we shall in that case be indeed weak. _So he sent him with them._ And when they went away with him, and agreed to put him at the bottom of the well, _they did so_.[222] _They pulled off his shirt, after they had beaten him and had treated him with contempt and had desired to slay him; and they let him down; and when he had arrived half-way down the well they let him fall, that he might die; and he fell into the water. He then betook himself to a mass of rock; and they called to him; so he answered them, imagining that they would have mercy upon him. They however desired to crush him with a piece of rock; but Judah prevented them._ And We said unto him by revelation, _while he was in the well (and he was seventeen years of age, or less), to quiet his heart_, Thou shalt assuredly declare unto them this their action, and they shall not know _thee at the time_.[223] And they came to their father at nightfall weeping. They said, O our father, we went to run races,[224] and left Joseph with our clothes, and the wolf devoured him; and thou wilt not believe us, though we speak truth. And they brought false blood upon his shirt.