9* "Slay ye Joseph or cast him out to some (unknown) land, that so the favor of your father may be given to you alone: (there will be time enough) for you to be righteous after that!"  
| |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 travelers."  
| |11* They said: "O our father! Why dost thou not trust us with Joseph,- seeing we are indeed his sincere well-wishers?  
| |12* "Send him with us tomorrow to enjoy himself and play, and we shall take every care of him."  
| |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."  
| |14* They said: "If the wolf were to devour him while we are (so large) a party, then should we be the losers!"  
| |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 perceive not'  
| |16* Then they came to their father in the early part of the night, weeping.  
| |17* They said: "O our father! We went racing with one another, and left Joseph with our things; and the wolf devoured him. But thou wilt never believe us even though we tell the truth."  
| |18* They stained his shirt with false blood. He said: "Nay, but your minds have made up a tale (that may pass) with you, (for me) patience is most fitting: Against that which ye assert, it is Allah (alone) Whose help can be sought"...  
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