Genesis 37:18

World English Bible (2000)

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

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  • Ps 37:12 : 12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
  • Ps 37:32 : 32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
  • Mark 14:1 : 1 It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
  • Acts 23:12 : 12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
  • John 11:53 : 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
  • 1 Sam 19:1 : 1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.
  • Ps 31:13 : 13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
  • Luke 20:14-15 : 14 "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' 15 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
  • Ps 94:21 : 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
  • Ps 105:25 : 25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
  • Ps 109:4 : 4 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
  • Matt 21:38 : 38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'
  • Matt 27:1 : 1 Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
  • Mark 12:7 : 7 But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

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  • Gen 37:19-20
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    19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

    20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

  • Gen 37:16-17
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    16 He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."

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

  • Gen 37:2-6
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    2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

    3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

    4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

    5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

    6 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

  • Gen 37:23
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    23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

  • Gen 42:7-9
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    7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

    8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.

    9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

  • Gen 37:8
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    8 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

  • Gen 50:15
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    15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him."

  • Gen 37:11-12
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    11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

    12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

  • Gen 37:27-28
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    27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

    28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

  • Gen 37:31-33
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    31 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

    32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."

    33 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."

  • Gen 45:4
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    4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

  • Ps 105:17
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    17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

  • Gen 42:14
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    14 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!'

  • Gen 44:4
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    4 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?

  • Gen 44:14-15
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    14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

    15 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

  • Gen 42:23
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    23 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

  • Acts 7:9
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    9 "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

  • Gen 46:28
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    28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

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