Genesis 37:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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.

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  • Gen 22:1 : 1 Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
  • Gen 27:1 : 1 Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.
  • Gen 27:18 : 18 And he came to his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I: who are you, my son?
  • 1 Sam 3:4-6 : 4 The voice of the Lord said Samuel's name; and he said, Here am I. 5 And running to Eli he said, Here am I, for you said my name. And Eli said, I did not say your name; go to your rest again. So he went back to his bed. 6 And again the Lord said, Samuel. And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, Here am I; for you certainly said my name. But he said in answer, I said nothing, my son; go to your rest again.
  • 1 Sam 3:8 : 8 And for the third time the Lord said Samuel's name. And he got up and went to Eli and said, Here am I; for you certainly said my name. Then it was clear to Eli that the voice which had said the child's name was the Lord's.
  • 1 Sam 3:16 : 16 Then Eli said, Samuel, my son. And Samuel answering said, Here am I.
  • 1 Sam 17:17-20 : 17 And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers; 18 And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are. 19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. 20 And David got up early in the morning, and, giving the sheep into the care of a keeper, took the things and went as Jesse had said; and he came to the lines where the carts were, when the army was going out to the fight giving their war-cry.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
  • Luke 20:13 : 13 And the lord of the garden said, What am I to do? I will send my dearly loved son; they may give respect to him.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward), 3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

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  • Gen 37:12
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    12 Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

  • Gen 37:14-17
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    14 And 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.

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

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

    17 And 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.

  • Gen 46:31-32
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    31 And 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;

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

  • Gen 47:5-6
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    5 And 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.

    6 And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place.

  • Gen 47:1
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    1 Then 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.

  • Gen 46:28
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    28 Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 45:3-4
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    3 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph: is my father still living? But his brothers were not able to give him an answer for they were troubled before him.

    4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.

  • Gen 43:6-8
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    6 And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?

    7 Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.

    8 Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

  • Gen 48:8
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    8 Then Israel, looking at Joseph's sons, said, Who are these?

  • Gen 45:9-10
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    9 Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away:

    10 The land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will be near me; you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and herds and all you have:

  • Gen 42:13-14
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    13 Then 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.

    14 And Joseph said, It is as I said; you have come with some secret purpose;

  • Gen 47:3
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    3 And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us.

  • Gen 42:7
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    7 And 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.

  • Gen 48:21
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    21 Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.

  • Gen 37:30
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    30 He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do?

  • 2 Kgs 6:13
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    13 Then he said, Go and see where he is, so that I may send and get him. And news came to him that he was in Dothan.

  • Gen 43:27
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    27 And they said, Your servant, our father, is well, he is still living. And they went down on their faces before him.

  • Gen 37:6
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    6 And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.

  • Gen 42:29
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    29 So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences, saying,

  • Gen 37:2
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    2 These 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.

  • Gen 29:7
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    7 Then 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.