Genesis 37:16
He replied,“I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks.”
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- Song 1:7 : 7 The Shepherd and the ShepherdessThe Beloved to Her Lover: Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions!
- Luke 19:10 : 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
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- Gen 37:12-154 verses86%
12When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,
13Israel said to Joseph,“Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.”“I’m ready,” Joseph replied.
14So Jacob said to him,“Go now and check on the welfare of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word.” So Jacob sent him from the valley of Hebron.
15When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him,“What are you looking for?”
- Gen 37:17-182 verses85%
17The man said,“They left this area, for I heard them say,‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
18Now Joseph’s brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
- Gen 37:6-72 verses77%
6He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had:
7There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down to it!”
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17Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!
- Gen 46:31-322 verses76%
31Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household,“I will go up and tell Pharaoh,‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.
32The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’
- Gen 45:3-42 verses75%
3Joseph said to his brothers,“I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” His brothers could not answer him because they were dumbfounded before him.
4Joseph said to his brothers,“Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said,“I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
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7When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them and spoke to them harshly. He asked,“Where do you come from?” They answered,“From the land of Canaan, to buy grain for food.”
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30returned to his brothers, and said,“The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”
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8Esau then asked,“What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?” Jacob replied,“To find favor in your sight, my lord.”
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1Joseph’s Wise Administration Joseph went and told Pharaoh,“My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.”
- Gen 47:3-53 verses74%
3Pharaoh said to Joseph’s brothers,“What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh,“Your servants take care of flocks, just as our ancestors did.”
4Then they said to Pharaoh,“We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
5Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Your father and your brothers have come to you.
- Gen 43:6-72 verses73%
6Israel said,“Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?”
7They replied,“The man questioned us thoroughly about ourselves and our family, saying,‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered him in this way. How could we possibly know that he would say,‘Bring your brother down’?”
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17He instructed the servant leading the first herd,“When my brother Esau meets you and asks,‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’
- Gen 42:13-142 verses73%
13They replied,“Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive.”
14But Joseph told them,“It is just as I said to you: You are spies!
- Gen 42:2-32 verses73%
2He then said,“Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die.”
3So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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19My lord asked his servants,‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
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4Jacob asked them,“My brothers, where are you from?” They replied,“We’re from Haran.”
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17‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.
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33“Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us,‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.
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13The king ordered,“Go, find out where he is, so I can send some men to capture him.” The king was told,“He is in Dothan.”
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2This is the account of Jacob.Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
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32Then they brought the special tunic to their father and said,“We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”
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15Joseph said to them,“What did you think you were doing? Don’t you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?”