Genesis 37:17

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The 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.

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  • 2 Kgs 6:13 : 13 So the king said, "Go and see where he is, so I can send men to capture him." When he was told, "He is in Dothan,"

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  • Gen 37:12-16
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    12Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem.

    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."

  • Gen 37:18-19
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    18They saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they conspired to kill him.

    19They said to one another, "Look, here comes the dreamer!"

  • 13So the king said, "Go and see where he is, so I can send men to capture him." When he was told, "He is in Dothan,"

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

  • 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.'"

  • 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.'

  • 4They had just left the city and had not gone far when Joseph said to his steward, "Get up, pursue the men. When you catch up to them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid good with evil?'

  • 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."

  • 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.'

  • 4Then Joseph said to his brothers, 'Please come closer to me.' They came closer, and he said, 'I am Joseph, your brother, the one you sold into Egypt.'

  • 30He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone! What am I going to do?"

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

  • 17The steward did as Joseph said and brought the men to Joseph's house.

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

  • 15Joseph asked them, "What is this deed you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can certainly practice divination?"

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

  • 14But Joseph said to them, 'It is just as I said: You are spies!

  • 17'This is what you are to say to Joseph: “Please forgive the transgressions of your brothers and their sin, for they treated you so badly.” Now, please forgive the transgressions of the servants of the God of your father.' Joseph wept when they spoke to him.