Genesis 37:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

And his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

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  • Gen 33:18 : 18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan Aram, and pitched his tent before the city.
  • Gen 34:25-31 : 25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each man his sword and came upon the city boldly and slew all the males. 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house and left. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their sheep, their oxen, and their donkeys, and what was in the city and what was in the field. 29 And all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives they took captive, and they plundered even all that was in the houses. 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me by making me despised among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and I, being few in number, they will gather together against me and slay me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my household. 31 And they said, Should he treat our sister as a harlot?
  • Gen 37:1 : 1 And Jacob lived in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

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  • Gen 37:13-18
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    87%

    13And Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am.

    14And he said to him, Go, I pray you, see if it is well with your brothers, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

    15And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What are you looking for?

    16And he said, I seek my brothers: tell me, I pray you, where they feed their flocks.

    17And the man said, They have departed from here; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

    18And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

  • Gen 37:10-11
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    10And he told it to his father, and to his brothers: and his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth?

    11And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the saying.

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

    32And the men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, herds, and all that they have.

  • Gen 45:17
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    17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this: load your animals and go, get to the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 37:1-2
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    1And Jacob lived in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

    2These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought their evil report to their father.

  • Gen 42:3
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    3And Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

  • Gen 47:1
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    1Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, saying, My father and my brothers, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 47:3
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    3And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

  • Gen 37:27
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    27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers were content.

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

    5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers: and they hated him even more.

    6And he said to them, Listen, I pray you, to this dream which I have dreamed:

    7For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood around, and bowed to my sheaf.

    8And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? or shall you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him even more for his dreams, and for his words.

  • Gen 47:12
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    12And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

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

  • Gen 47:5
    74%

    5And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you:

  • Gen 42:7-8
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    7And Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them; and he said to them, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

    8And Joseph recognized his brothers, but 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; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.

  • Gen 43:2
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    2And it came to pass, when they had consumed the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food.

  • Gen 46:28
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    28And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to direct him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 37:23
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    23And it came to pass, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colors that was on him;

  • Gen 45:25
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    25And they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father,

  • Gen 50:8
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    8And all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father's house, only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 42:32
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    32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 29:7
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    7And he said, Look, it is still broad daylight; it is not time for the cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.

  • Gen 50:14
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    14And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

  • Gen 37:32
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    32And they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father; and said, This we have found: know now whether it is your son's coat or not.