Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

so that some caravan may pick him up,
if you are to do [anything].’
11 They said, ‘Father!
Why is it that you do not trust us with Joseph?
We are indeed his well-wishers.
12 Let him go with us tomorrow
so that he may eat lots of fruits and play,
and we will indeed take [good] care of him.’
13 He said, ‘It really upsets me
that you should take him away,
and I fear the wolf may eat him
while you are oblivious of him.’
14 They said, ‘Should the wolf eat him
while we are a hardy group,
then we will indeed be losers!’
15 So when they took him away
and conspired to put him
into the recess of a well,
We revealed to him, ‘[A day will come when]
you will surely inform them about this affair of theirs
while they are not aware [of your identity].’
16 In the evening, they came weeping to their father.
17 They said, ‘Father!
We had gone racing
and left Joseph with our things,
whereat the wolf ate him. But you will not believe us
even if we spoke truly.’
18 And they produced sham blood on his shirt.
He said, ‘Rather