Genesis 37:3

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Gen 37:32 : 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."
  • Gen 37:23 : 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;
  • John 13:22-23 : 22 The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke. 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus' breast.
  • 2 Sam 13:18 : 18 She had a garment of various colors on her; for with such robes were the king's daughters who were virgins dressed. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
  • Ps 45:13-14 : 13 The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold. 14 She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
  • Ezek 16:16 : 16 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].
  • John 3:35 : 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
  • Gen 44:20-30 : 20 We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.' 21 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.' 22 We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.' 23 You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.' 24 It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.' 26 We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.' 27 Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons: 28 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since. 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.' 30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life;
  • Judg 5:30 : 30 'Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, a spoil of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?'

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  • Gen 37:4-6
    3 verses
    83%

    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
    81%

    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 37:31-34
    4 verses
    80%

    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."

    34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

  • Gen 37:2
    79%

    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.

  • Gen 50:1
    74%

    1 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

  • Gen 48:10
    73%

    10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

  • Gen 37:18
    73%

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

  • Gen 46:29
    73%

    29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

  • Gen 37:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    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 48:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

    18 Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."

  • Gen 48:8
    72%

    8 Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?"

  • Gen 27:15
    72%

    15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

  • Gen 37:8
    71%

    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.

  • Hos 11:1
    71%

    1 "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

  • Gen 47:7
    71%

    7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • Gen 47:12
    71%

    12 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

  • Acts 7:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

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

    10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • Gen 37:27
    71%

    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.

  • Gen 48:2
    71%

    2 Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.