Genesis 37:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

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  • Gen 33:18 : 18 So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.
  • Gen 34:25-31 : 25 But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death. 26 And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away. 27 And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister; 28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields, 29 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste. 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people. 31 But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?
  • Gen 37:1 : 1 Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

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    13And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

    14And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

    15And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

    16And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock.

    17And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan.

    18But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death;

  • Gen 37:10-11
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    10And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you?

    11And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.

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    31And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;

    32And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.

  • Gen 45:17
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    17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your goods on your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;

  • Gen 37:1-2
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    1Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

    2These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

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    3So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.

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    1Then Joseph went to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers with their flocks and their herds and all they have, are come from Canaan, and are now in the land of Goshen.

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    3And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us.

  • Gen 37:27
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    27Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.

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    4And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.

    5Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.

    6And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.

    7We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

    8And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.

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    12And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

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    29So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences, saying,

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    5And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them have the land of Goshen; and if there are any able men among them, put them over my cattle.

  • Gen 42:7-8
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    7And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.

    8Now though Joseph saw that these were his brothers, they had no idea who he was.

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    13Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

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    2And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.

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    28Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 37:23
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    23So when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his long coat which he had on;

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    25So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.

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    8And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

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    32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.

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    7Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.

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    14And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.

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    32And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not?