Genesis 37:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 2 Kgs 6:13 : 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.

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  • Gen 37:12-16
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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.

    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.

  • Gen 37:18-19
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    18 But 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;

    19 Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.

  • 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.

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

  • 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;

  • 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.

  • 4 And when they had gone only a little way out of the town, Joseph said to the servant who was over his house, Go after them; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you done evil in reward for good?

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 17 Now the men were full of fear because they had been taken into Joseph's house and they said, It is because of the money which was put back in our bags the first time; he is looking for something against us, so that he may come down on us and take us and our asses for his use.

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

  • 15 And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?

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

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

  • 17 You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.