Genesis 37:12

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Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem.

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  • Gen 33:18 : 18 Jacob arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, after his journey from Paddan Aram, and he camped near the city.
  • Gen 34:25-31 : 25 On the third day, when they were in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came against the city undetected, and killed every male. 26 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah from Shechem's house and left. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled. 28 They took their flocks, herds, donkeys, and everything in the city and in the fields. 29 They carried off all their wealth, their children, and their wives, taking everything in the houses as plunder. 30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. We are few in number. If they join forces against me and attack me, my household and I will be destroyed." 31 But they replied, "Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?"
  • Gen 37:1 : 1 Jacob settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan.

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  • Gen 37:13-18
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    13Israel said to Joseph, "Aren’t your brothers shepherding the flock at Shechem? Go, and I will send you to them." Joseph replied, "Here I am."

    14So Israel said to him, "Go now and see if everything is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me back a report." Then he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and Joseph went to Shechem.

    15A man found him wandering in the field and asked him, "What are you looking for?"

    16He replied, "I am looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are shepherding."

    17The man said, "They have moved on from here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.

    18They saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they conspired to kill him.

  • Gen 37:10-11
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    10When he told the dream to his father and brothers, his father rebuked him, asking, "What kind of dream is this that you have had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to the ground before you?"

    11His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

  • Gen 46:31-32
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    31Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, 'I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, "My brothers and my father’s household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.'"

    32The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks, herds, and everything they own.

  • Gen 45:17
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    17Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'Tell your brothers to do this: Load your animals and go back to the land of Canaan.'

  • Gen 37:1-2
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    1Jacob settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan.

    2This is the account of Jacob: Joseph, a seventeen-year-old youth, was shepherding the flock with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought a bad report about them to their father.

  • Gen 42:3
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    3Then ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 47:1
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    1So Joseph went and told Pharaoh, 'My father, my brothers, their flocks, their herds, and everything they own have come from the land of Canaan, and they are now in the region of Goshen.'

  • Gen 47:3
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    3Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers, 'What is your occupation?' and they replied to Pharaoh, 'Your servants are shepherds, just as our fathers were.'

  • Gen 37:27
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    27Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed.

  • Gen 37:4-8
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    4But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all of them, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

    5One time Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

    6Joseph said to them, "Please listen to this dream I had.

    7"We were binding sheaves in the field when suddenly my sheaf stood up and remained upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine."

    8His brothers said to him, "Do you really think you will reign over us? Will you actually rule us?" And they hated him even more for his dreams and his words.

  • Gen 47:12
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    12Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household according to the number of their children.

  • Gen 42:29
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    29When they came to Jacob, their father, in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.

  • Gen 47:5
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    5Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'Your father and brothers have come to you.'

  • Gen 42:7-8
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    7When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he acted as a stranger toward them and spoke harshly to them. He asked, 'Where have you come from?' They answered, 'From the land of Canaan, to buy food.'

    8Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

  • Gen 42:13
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    13And they said, 'Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no longer alive.'

  • Gen 43:2
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    2When they had finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy a little more food for us.”

  • Gen 46:28
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    28Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When they arrived in the land of Goshen,

  • Gen 37:23
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    23So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing.

  • Gen 45:25
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    25So they went up from Egypt and came to Canaan to their father Jacob.

  • Gen 50:8
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    8Joseph's entire household, his brothers, and his father's household accompanied him. But they left their children, flocks, and cattle in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 42:32
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    32"We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan."'

  • Gen 29:7
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    7He said, 'Look, the day is still high; it is not time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them out to pasture.'

  • Gen 50:14
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    14After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all those who had gone up with him to bury his father.

  • Gen 37:32
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    32They sent the ornate tunic to their father and said, "We found this. Please examine it to see whether it is your son's tunic or not."