Genesis 37:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Gen 35:25-26 : 25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali; 26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.
  • 1 Sam 2:22-24 : 22 Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel. 23 And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways. 24 No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.
  • 1 Cor 11:18 : 18 For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.
  • John 7:7 : 7 It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.
  • 1 Cor 1:11 : 11 Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.
  • 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.
  • Gen 2:4 : 4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.
  • Gen 5:1 : 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;
  • Gen 6:9 : 9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.
  • Gen 10:1 : 1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
  • Gen 30:4 : 4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
  • Gen 30:9 : 9 When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife.
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 37:3-6
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    79%

    3 Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.

    4 And 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.

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

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

  • Gen 37:10-12
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    77%

    10 And 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?

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

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

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

  • Gen 41:46
    74%

    46 Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 1:5
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    5 All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.

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

  • Gen 37:31-32
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    31 Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death,

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

  • Gen 46:19
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    19 The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

  • Gen 37:16-18
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

    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;

  • Gen 42:13
    73%

    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.

  • Acts 7:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 And the second time his brothers had a meeting with Joseph, and Pharaoh had knowledge of Joseph's family.

    14 Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.

  • Gen 47:28
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    28 And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

  • Gen 47:7
    72%

    7 Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing.

  • Gen 37:36
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    36 And in Egypt the men of Midian gave him for a price to Potiphar, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house.

  • Gen 35:24
    72%

    24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

  • Gen 42:29
    72%

    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 47:12
    72%

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

  • Gen 37:28
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    28 And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.

  • Gen 35:22
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    22 Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

  • Gen 42:32
    72%

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

  • Gen 48:1
    71%

    1 Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

  • Acts 7:9
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    9 And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,