The Pit and the Price: Genesis 37:12-36

Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem, and Israel said to Joseph, "As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them."

"Very well," he replied.

A simple errand. Check on the brothers, bring back a report. Joseph set out, wearing his famous coat, walking into a trap.

So he said to him, "Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me." Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.