Genesis 37:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Gen 35:25-26 : 25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali. 26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
  • 1 Sam 2:22-24 : 22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting. 23 He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people. 24 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people to disobey.
  • 1 Cor 11:18 : 18 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
  • John 7:7 : 7 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
  • 1 Cor 1:11 : 11 For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.
  • 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.
  • Gen 2:4 : 4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.
  • Gen 5:1 : 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.
  • Gen 6:9 : 9 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
  • Gen 10:1 : 1 Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
  • Gen 30:4 : 4 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
  • Gen 30:9 : 9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

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  • Gen 37:3-6
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    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 37:10-12
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    10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"

    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.

  • 1 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

  • 46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • 5 All the souls who came out of the Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

  • 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 37:31-32
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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."

  • 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

  • Gen 37:16-18
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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.

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

  • 13 They said, "We, 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."

  • Acts 7:13-14
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    13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.

    14 Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

  • 28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

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

  • 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

  • 24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 22 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

  • 32 We 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.'

  • 1 It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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