Genesis 37:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Judg 4:22 : 22 Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.
  • 2 Kgs 6:19 : 19 And Elisha said to them, This is not the way, and this is not the town: come after me so that I may take you to the man you are searching for. And he took them to Samaria.
  • John 1:38 : 38 And Jesus, turning round, saw them coming after him and said to them, What are you looking for? They said to him, Rabbi (which is to say, Master), where are you living?
  • John 4:27 : 27 At that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him talking to a woman; but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose? or, Why are you talking to her?
  • John 18:4 : 4 Then Jesus, having knowledge of everything which was coming on him, went forward and said to them, Who are you looking for?
  • John 18:7 : 7 So again he put the question to them, Who are you looking for? And they said, Jesus the Nazarene.
  • John 20:15 : 15 Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? who are you looking for? She, taking him for the gardener, said to him, Sir, if you have taken him away from here, say where you have put him and I will take him away.
  • Gen 21:14 : 14 And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

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  • Gen 37:16-17
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    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 37:12-14
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    12 Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

    13 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.

    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.

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    16 Now when it was evening they saw an old man coming back from his work in the fields; he was from the hill-country of Ephraim and was living in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

    17 And when he saw the traveller in the street of the town, the old man said, Where are you going? and where do you come from?

    18 And he said to him, We are on our way from Beth-lehem-judah to the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim: I came from there and went to Beth-lehem-judah: now I am on my way back to my house, but no man will take me into his house.

  • 2 When you have gone away from me today, you will see two men by the resting-place of Rachel's body, in the land of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, The asses which you went in search of have come back, and now your father, caring no longer for the asses, is troubled about you, saying, What am I to do about my son?

  • 37 And when they came up with him, they said to him, Everyone is looking for you.

  • 8 And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.

  • 37 Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.

  • 3 When they were near the house of Micah, hearing a voice which was not strange to them, that of the young Levite, they went out of their road to his place, and said to him, How did you come here? and what are you doing in this place? and why are you here?

  • 14 And went after the man of God, and came up with him while he was seated under an oak-tree. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.

  • 17 And he gave orders to the first, saying, When my brother Esau comes to you and says, Whose servant are you, and where are you going, and whose are these herds?

  • 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.

  • 2 And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.

  • 21 And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there.

  • 17 But when they kept on requesting him, he was shamed and said, Send, then. So they sent fifty men; but after searching for three days, they came back without having seen him.

  • 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.

  • Judg 17:8-9
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    8 And he went away from the town of Beth-lehem-judah, looking for somewhere to make his living-place; and on his journey he came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.

    9 And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I am a Levite from Beth-lehem-judah, and I am looking for a living-place.

  • 6 And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.

  • 4 So they went through the hill-country of Ephraim and through the land of Shalishah, but they saw no sign of them: then they went through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there: and they went through the land of the Benjamites, but they did not come across them.

  • 15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.

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

  • Luke 15:4-5
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    4 What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?

    5 And when he has got it again, he takes it in his arms with joy.

  • Gen 29:6-7
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    6 And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.

    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.

  • 22 So they put another question to the Lord, Is the man present here? And the answer of the Lord was, He is keeping himself from view among the goods.

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

  • 6 We had news of it at Ephrathah: we came to it in the fields of the wood.

  • 28 The one went away from me, and I said, Truly he has come to a violent death; and from that time I have not seen him,

  • 12 What would you say now? if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away, will he not let the ninety-nine be, and go to the mountains in search of the wandering one?

  • 7 And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

  • 20 And Isaac said, How is it that you have got it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord your God made it come my way.

  • 45 And seeing that he was not there, they went back to Jerusalem, to make search for him.

  • 12 And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is.

  • 9 And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?