The father's tender attitude toward Yusuf aroused jealousy and hatred in his elder sons from another wife, and, having conspired, they decided to kill him, but at the last moment they changed their minds and threw Yusuf into a well, so that a caravan passing by would take him far from home. They told their father that he had been torn apart by a wolf. The merchants who were heading to Egypt pulled the boy out and sold him there to one of the Pharaoh's viziers for a paltry price. When Yusuf grew up, his beauty began to drive the noblewomen of the city crazy, including the wife of the vizier in whose house he lived. Refusing to share a bed with her, Yusuf was soon imprisoned on her slander.