Tel Dothan

It was in this valley at Dothan where Joseph found his brothers who were tending their father's sheep and where the brothers, jealous of the favoritism shown to Joseph by their father, threw Joseph in a pit and then sold him to passing merchants headed for Egypt. Having stripped him of the colorful mantle given him by their father they returned home with the blood-stained mantle to show their father to prove that Joseph was lost to him.