Genesis 37:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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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  • Gen 37:4 : 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.
  • Gen 49:26 : 26 Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers.
  • Exod 2:14 : 14 And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light.
  • 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.
  • 1 Sam 17:28 : 28 And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evil of your heart, you have come down to see the fight.
  • Ps 2:3-6 : 3 Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us. 4 Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them. 5 Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled: 6 But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.
  • Ps 118:22 : 22 The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.
  • Luke 20:17 : 17 But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?
  • Acts 4:27-28 : 27 For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together, 28 To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
  • Acts 7:35 : 35 This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.
  • Heb 10:29 : 29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

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  • Gen 37:3-7
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    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.

    7 We 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.

  • Gen 37:9-12
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    9 Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me.

    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 37:16-20
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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.

    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.

    20 Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.

  • Gen 50:15
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    15 Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

  • Gen 37:27
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    27 Let 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.

  • Gen 42:6-9
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    6 Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.

    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.

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

    9 Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.

  • Gen 44:7
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    7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:

  • Gen 50:18
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    18 Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.

  • 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 44:15
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    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?

  • Gen 27:40-41
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    40 By your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your neck.

    41 So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.

  • Gen 40:8
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    8 Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream?

  • Gen 43:6
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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?

  • Gen 48:19
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    19 But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.

  • 2 Sam 14:7
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    7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

  • Isa 3:6
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    6 When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:

  • Gen 41:11
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    11 And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense.

  • 1 Chr 5:2
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    2 Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright was Joseph's:)