Genesis 37

1Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.Cross-references: Gen 17:8 · Gen 23:4 · Gen 28:4 · Gen 36:7 · Heb 11:9

2This 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.Cross-references: Gen 2:4 · Gen 5:1 · Gen 6:9 · Gen 10:1 · Gen 30:4 · Gen 30:9 · +7 more

3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.Cross-references: Gen 37:23 · Gen 37:32 · Gen 44:20 · Judg 5:30 · 2Sam 13:18 · Ps 45:13 · +3 more

4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.Cross-references: Gen 4:5 · Gen 27:41 · Gen 37:5 · Gen 37:11 · Gen 37:18 · Gen 49:23 · +11 more

5Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.Cross-references: Gen 28:12 · Gen 37:4 · Gen 37:8 · Gen 40:5 · Gen 41:1 · Gen 42:9 · +10 more

6He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:Cross-references: Gen 44:18 · Judg 9:7

7for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”Cross-references: Gen 42:6 · Gen 42:9 · Gen 43:26 · Gen 44:14 · Gen 44:19 · Phil 2:10 · +1 more

8His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.Cross-references: Gen 37:4 · Gen 49:26 · Ex 2:14 · 1Sam 10:27 · 1Sam 17:28 · Ps 2:3 · +6 more

9He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”Cross-references: Gen 37:7 · Gen 37:10 · Gen 41:25 · Gen 41:32 · Gen 43:28 · Gen 44:14 · +8 more

10He 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 the earth before you?”Cross-references: Gen 27:29 · Gen 37:7 · Isa 60:14 · Phil 2:10

11His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.Cross-references: Gen 24:31 · Gen 26:14 · Ps 106:16 · Eccl 4:4 · Isa 11:13 · Isa 26:11 · +11 more

12His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.Cross-references: Gen 33:18 · Gen 34:25 · Gen 37:1

13Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”Cross-references: Gen 22:1 · Gen 27:1 · Gen 27:18 · 1Sam 3:4 · 1Sam 3:8 · 1Sam 3:16 · +4 more

14He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.Cross-references: Gen 13:18 · Gen 23:2 · Gen 29:6 · Gen 35:27 · Gen 41:16 · Num 13:22 · +8 more

15A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”Cross-references: Gen 21:14 · Judg 4:22 · 2Ki 6:19 · John 1:38 · John 4:27 · John 18:4 · +2 more

16He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”Cross-references: Song 1:7 · Luke 19:10

17The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.Cross-references: 2Ki 6:13

18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.Cross-references: 1Sam 19:1 · Ps 31:13 · Ps 37:12 · Ps 37:32 · Ps 94:21 · Ps 105:25 · +8 more

19They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.Cross-references: Gen 28:12 · Gen 37:5 · Gen 37:11 · Gen 49:23

20Come 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.”Cross-references: 1Sam 24:20 · 1Sam 26:2 · 1Ki 13:24 · 2Ki 2:24 · Ps 64:5 · Prov 1:11 · +12 more

21Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”Cross-references: Gen 9:5 · Gen 35:22 · Gen 42:22 · Josh 10:28 · Matt 10:28

22Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.Cross-references: Gen 22:12 · Gen 42:22 · Ex 24:11 · Deut 13:9 · Matt 27:24 · Acts 12:1

23When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;Cross-references: Gen 37:3 · Gen 37:31 · Gen 42:21 · Ps 22:18 · Matt 27:28

24and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.Cross-references: Ps 35:7 · Ps 40:2 · Ps 88:6 · Ps 88:8 · Ps 130:1 · Jer 38:6 · +3 more

25They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.Cross-references: Gen 16:11 · Gen 25:1 · Gen 25:16 · Gen 31:21 · Gen 31:23 · Gen 37:28 · +10 more

26Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?Cross-references: Gen 4:10 · Gen 25:32 · Gen 37:20 · Deut 17:8 · 2Sam 1:16 · Job 16:18 · +5 more

27Come, 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.Cross-references: Gen 29:14 · Gen 37:22 · Gen 42:21 · Ex 21:16 · Ex 21:21 · 1Sam 18:17 · +7 more

28Midianites 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. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.Cross-references: Gen 25:2 · Gen 37:25 · Gen 37:36 · Gen 45:4 · Ex 2:16 · Num 25:15 · +13 more

29Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.Cross-references: Gen 34:13 · Gen 37:34 · Gen 44:13 · Num 14:6 · Judg 11:35 · 2Ki 19:1 · +3 more

30He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”Cross-references: Gen 37:20 · Gen 42:13 · Gen 42:32 · Gen 42:35 · Jer 31:15

31They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.Cross-references: Gen 37:3 · Gen 37:23 · Prov 28:13

32They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”Cross-references: Gen 37:3 · Gen 44:20 · Luke 15:30

33He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”Cross-references: Gen 37:20 · Gen 44:28 · 1Ki 13:24 · 2Ki 2:24 · Prov 14:15 · John 13:7

34Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.Cross-references: Gen 37:29 · Josh 7:6 · 2Sam 1:11 · 2Sam 3:31 · 1Ki 20:31 · 1Ki 21:27 · +18 more

35All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.Cross-references: Gen 31:43 · Gen 35:22 · Gen 42:31 · Gen 42:38 · Gen 44:29 · Gen 45:28 · +4 more

36The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.Cross-references: Gen 25:1 · Gen 37:28 · Gen 39:1 · Gen 40:4 · 2Ki 25:8 · Esth 1:10 · +1 more