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Genesis 37
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Book of Genesis
Chapter 37
37:1 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:1 BCC -> Commentary on 37:1 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:1 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:1 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:1 JFB -> Commentary on 37:1 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:1 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:1 TSK -> Entry for 37:1 WEN -> Notes on 37:1 NTB -> Jacob; Malice TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Dreams; Genesis; Jacob; Joseph; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering
37:2 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:2 BCC -> Commentary on 37:2 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:2 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:2 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:2 JFB -> Commentary on 37:2 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:2 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:2 SRN -> Study Notes on 37:2 TSK -> Entry for 37:2 WEN -> Notes on 37:2 NTB -> Bilhah; Concubinage; Talebearer; Zilpah TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Joseph; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Shepherds; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph BED -> Evil EBD -> Generation HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Generation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering; Zilpah SBD -> Joseph; Zilpah
37:3 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented F191 robe for him.	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:3 BCC -> Commentary on 37:3 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:3 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:3 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:3 JFB -> Commentary on 37:3 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:3 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:3 TSK -> Entry for 37:3 WEN -> Notes on 37:3 NTB -> Children; Favoritism; Jacob; Joseph; Parents TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Clothing; Coats; Dress; Gifts; Home; Jacob; Parental; Partiality; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Garments ATS -> Garments; Joseph EBD -> Child; Coat; Dress; Joseph HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Cloth, Clothing; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Joseph; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Dress
37:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:4 BCC -> Commentary on 37:4 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:4 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:4 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:4 JFB -> Commentary on 37:4 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:4 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:4 TSK -> Entry for 37:4 WEN -> Notes on 37:4 NTB -> Children; Envy; Favoritism; Jacob; Jealousy; Joseph; Parents; Partiality; Sin TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Family; Hatred; Home; Jealousy; Love-Hatred; Man's; Man; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children; Trouble TTT -> Hatred ATS -> Joseph BED -> Hate, Hatred EBD -> Joseph HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Cloth, Clothing; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering
37:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:5 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:5 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:5 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:5 JFB -> Commentary on 37:5 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:5 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:5 TSK -> Entry for 37:5 WEN -> Notes on 37:5 NTB -> Dream; Envy; Jealousy; Joseph TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Dreams; Home; Joseph; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Dreams ATS -> Joseph BED -> Mission HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Joseph
37:6 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had:	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:6 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:6 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:6 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:6 JFB -> Commentary on 37:6 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:6 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:6 TSK -> Entry for 37:6 WEN -> Notes on 37:6 NTB -> Dream; Envy; Jealousy; Joseph TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Joseph; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Dreams ATS -> Joseph HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Joseph
37:7 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it."	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:7 BCC -> Commentary on 37:7 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:7 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:7 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:7 JFB -> Commentary on 37:7 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:7 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:7 TSK -> Entry for 37:7 WEN -> Notes on 37:7 NTB -> Dream; Envy; Jealousy; Joseph TCR -> Agriculture-Horticulture; Agriculture; Bible Stories for Children; Binding Grain; Bowing; Children; Home; Joseph; Obeisance; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Sheaves; Stories for Children; Supremacy TTT -> Agriculture or Husbandry; Dreams; Harvest, The; Reaping ATS -> Joseph BED -> Upright, Uprightness EBD -> Agriculture; Field; Husbandman; Obeisance HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Field; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering; Sheaf SBD -> Joseph
37:8 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?" And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:8 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:8 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:8 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:8 JFB -> Commentary on 37:8 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:8 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:8 TSK -> Entry for 37:8 WEN -> Notes on 37:8 NTB -> Dream; Envy; Jealousy; Joseph TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Joseph; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Dreams ATS -> Joseph BED -> Mission HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Dominion; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering
37:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. "Listen," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:9 BCC -> Commentary on 37:9 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:9 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:9 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:9 JFB -> Commentary on 37:9 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:9 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:9 TSK -> Entry for 37:9 WEN -> Notes on 37:9 NTB -> Dream; Envy; Jacob; Jealousy; Joseph; Moon TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Joseph; Liberty-Bondage; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children; Subjection TTT -> Dreams; Sun, The ATS -> Joseph EBD -> Dream; Stars HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering
37:10 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?"	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:10 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:10 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:10 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:10 JFB -> Commentary on 37:10 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:10 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:10 TSK -> Entry for 37:10 WEN -> Notes on 37:10 NTB -> Dream; Envy; Jacob; Jealousy; Joseph; Salutations TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph BED -> Mission EBD -> Dream HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Bow
37:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:11 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:11 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:11 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:11 JFB -> Commentary on 37:11 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:11 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:11 TSK -> Entry for 37:11 WEN -> Notes on 37:11 NTB -> Envy; Jacob; Jealousy; Joseph TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Envy; Family; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children; Trouble TTT -> Envy ATS -> Joseph EBD -> Dream; Joseph HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Jealousy; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering
37:12 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem,	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:12 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:12 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:12 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:12 JFB -> Commentary on 37:12 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:12 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:12 TSK -> Entry for 37:12 WEN -> Notes on 37:12 NTB -> Shechem TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Shechem; Stories for Children; Sychar, or Shechem ATS -> Joseph; Shepherd BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Shepherd
37:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] and Israel said to Joseph, "As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them." "Very well," he replied.	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:13 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:13 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:13 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:13 JFB -> Commentary on 37:13 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:13 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:13 TSK -> Entry for 37:13 WEN -> Notes on 37:13 NTB -> Shechem TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph; Shepherd BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations; Government HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering
37:14 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] So he said to him, "Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me." Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph arrived at Shechem,	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:14 BCC -> Commentary on 37:14 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:14 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:14 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:14 JFB -> Commentary on 37:14 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:14 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:14 TSK -> Entry for 37:14 WEN -> Notes on 37:14 NTB -> Shechem TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Care; Children; Family; Home; Parental; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Solicitude; Stories for Children TTT -> Valleys ATS -> Joseph; Shepherd BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations; Government EBD -> Hebron HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Hebron
37:15 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, "What are you looking for?"	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:15 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:15 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:15 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:15 JFB -> Commentary on 37:15 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:15 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:15 TSK -> Entry for 37:15 WEN -> Notes on 37:15 TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph; Shepherd BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations; Government HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering
37:16 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] He replied, "I'm looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?"	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:16 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:16 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:16 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:16 JFB -> Commentary on 37:16 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:16 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:16 TSK -> Entry for 37:16 WEN -> Notes on 37:16 TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph; Shepherd BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations; Government HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering
37:17 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] "They have moved on from here," the man answered. "I heard them say, 'Let's go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan.	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:17 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:17 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:17 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:17 JFB -> Commentary on 37:17 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:17 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:17 TSK -> Entry for 37:17 WEN -> Notes on 37:17 NTB -> Dothan TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Dothan; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Dothan; Joseph; Shepherd BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations; Government EBD -> Dothan HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Dothan; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Dothan
37:18 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:18 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:18 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:18 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:18 JFB -> Commentary on 37:18 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:18 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:18 TSK -> Entry for 37:18 WEN -> Notes on 37:18 NTB -> Conspiracy; Jealousy; Joseph; Sin TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Conspiracy; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Plotting; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Murder ATS -> Joseph; Reuben BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations; Kill, Killing HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Reuben
37:19 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] "Here comes that dreamer!" they said to each other.	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:19 BCC -> Commentary on 37:19 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:19 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:19 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:19 JFB -> Commentary on 37:19 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:19 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:19 TSK -> Entry for 37:19 WEN -> Notes on 37:19 NTB -> Conspiracy; Envy; Jealousy; Joseph TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Malice; Reviling and Reproaching ATS -> Joseph; Reuben BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Reuben
37:20 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] "Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what comes of his dreams."	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:20 BCC -> Commentary on 37:20 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:20 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:20 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:20 JFB -> Commentary on 37:20 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:20 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:20 TSK -> Entry for 37:20 WEN -> Notes on 37:20 NTB -> Conspiracy; Envy; Jealousy; Joseph; Sin TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Malice; Murder ATS -> Joseph; Pit; Reuben; Simeon BED -> Envy; Evil; Family Life and Relations; Kill, Killing HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Cistern; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Pit; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Reuben
37:21 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. "Let's not take his life," he said.	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:21 BCC -> Commentary on 37:21 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:21 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:21 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:21 JFB -> Commentary on 37:21 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:21 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:21 TSK -> Entry for 37:21 WEN -> Notes on 37:21 NTB -> Brother; Intercession; Jealousy; Joseph; Reuben TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Intercession; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Prayer; Religion; Reuben; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph; Reuben BED -> Abortion; Envy; Family Life and Relations EBD -> Reuben HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Cistern; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Pit; Reuben; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Reuben
37:22 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] "Don't shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the desert, but don't lay a hand on him." Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:22 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:22 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:22 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:22 JFB -> Commentary on 37:22 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:22 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:22 TSK -> Entry for 37:22 WEN -> Notes on 37:22 NTB -> Brother; Intercession; Jealousy; Joseph; Reuben TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Murder ATS -> Joseph; Reuben BED -> Abortion; Envy; Family Life and Relations EBD -> Reuben HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Cistern; Creation; Genesis; Gestures; Jacob; Pentateuch; Pit; Reuben; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Cistern; Reuben
37:23 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe - the richly ornamented robe he was wearing -	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:23 BCC -> Commentary on 37:23 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:23 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:23 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:23 JFB -> Commentary on 37:23 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:23 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:23 TSK -> Entry for 37:23 WEN -> Notes on 37:23 NTB -> Jealousy; Joseph; Reuben TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph; Reuben BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations EBD -> Dress HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Cistern; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Pit; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Dress; Reuben
37:24 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] and they took him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:24 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:24 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:24 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:24 JFB -> Commentary on 37:24 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:24 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:24 TSK -> Entry for 37:24 WEN -> Notes on 37:24 NTB -> Jealousy; Joseph; Reuben TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Cruelty; Home; Kindness-Cruelty; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph; Reuben BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations; Pit EBD -> Cistern; Pit HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Cistern; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Pit; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Reuben
37:25 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:25 BCC -> Commentary on 37:25 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:25 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:25 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:25 JFB -> Commentary on 37:25 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:25 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:25 TSK -> Entry for 37:25 WEN -> Notes on 37:25 NTB -> Balm; Camel; Commerce; Egypt; Exports; Gilead; Imports; Ishmaelites; Jealousy; Joseph; Midianites; Myrrh; Reuben; Spices TCR -> Balm; Bible Stories for Children; Business Life; Caravans; Children; Home; Merchants; Myrrh; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Camel, The; Commerce; Ishmaelites, The; Travellers ATS -> Balm, Or More Properly, Balsam; Camel; Gilead Or Galeed; Joseph; Merchant; Midianites; Reuben; Shechem BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations; Hades; Heal, Health EBD -> Balm; Camel; Dromedary; Gilead; Gilead, Balm of; Ishmael; Merchant; Myrrh HBD -> Aging; Balm Of Gilead; Balm; Brothers; Caravan; Cistern; Creation; Genesis; Gum; Ishmaelite; Jacob; Myrrh; Ointment; Pentateuch; Pit; Plants In The Bible; Sacrifice And Offering; Transjordan SBD -> Balm; Camel; Gile-ad; Ishmael; Ishme-elite; Myrrh; Reuben; Spice, Spices
37:26 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Judah said to his brothers, "What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:26 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:26 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:26 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:26 JFB -> Commentary on 37:26 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:26 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:26 TSK -> Entry for 37:26 WEN -> Notes on 37:26 NTB -> Intercession; Ishmaelites; Jealousy; Joseph; Judah; Reuben; Servant; Worldliness TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Intercession; Judah; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Prayer; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph; Judah; Reuben BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations; Jews, Judaism EBD -> Judah HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Cistern; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Pit; Sacrifice And Offering; Tribes Of Israel, The SBD -> Judah; Reuben
37:27 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood." His brothers agreed.	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:27 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:27 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:27 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:27 JFB -> Commentary on 37:27 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:27 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:27 TSK -> Entry for 37:27 WEN -> Notes on 37:27 NTB -> Commerce; Intercession; Ishmaelites; Jealousy; Joseph; Judah; Reuben; Servant; Worldliness TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph; Reuben; Servant BED -> Abortion; Envy; Family Life and Relations; Jews, Judaism; Sexuality, Human EBD -> Ishmael; Judah HBD -> Aging; Body; Brothers; Cistern; Commerce; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Pit; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Ishmael; Ishme-elite; Judah; Reuben
37:28 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels F192 of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:28 BCC -> Commentary on 37:28 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:28 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:28 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:28 JFB -> Commentary on 37:28 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:28 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:28 TSK -> Entry for 37:28 WEN -> Notes on 37:28 NTB -> Commerce; Ishmaelites; Jealousy; Joseph; Merchant; Midianites; Money; Reuben; Servant TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Jacob; Joseph; Men; Midianites; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children; Traffic in Men TTT -> Commerce; Egypt; Midianites; Money; Silver ATS -> Joseph; Reuben; Shekel BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations; Jews, Judaism; Money EBD -> Coin; Ishmael; Ishmeelites; Merchant; Midianite; Pieces HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Cistern; Commerce; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Kidnapping; Midian, Midianites; Minerals And Metals; Ointment; Pentateuch; Pit; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Ishmael; Ishme-elite; Judah; Money; Piece of silver; Reuben
37:29 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:29 BCC -> Commentary on 37:29 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:29 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:29 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:29 JFB -> Commentary on 37:29 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:29 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:29 TSK -> Entry for 37:29 WEN -> Notes on 37:29 NTB -> Deception; Falsehood; Hypocrisy; Ishmaelites; Joseph; Mourning; Rending; Reuben TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Clothes Rent; Clothing; Dead, The; Home; Joy-Sorrow; Mourning; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Rending of Clothes; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph; Reuben BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations EBD -> Dress; Mourn HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Cistern; Creation; Genesis; Grief And Mourning; Jacob; Pentateuch; Pit; Rending Of Garments; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Mourning; Reuben
37:30 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy isn't there! Where can I turn now?"	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:30 BCC -> Commentary on 37:30 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:30 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:30 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:30 JFB -> Commentary on 37:30 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:30 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:30 TSK -> Entry for 37:30 WEN -> Notes on 37:30 NTB -> Deception; Falsehood; Hypocrisy; Ishmaelites; Joseph; Reuben TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph; Reuben BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Reuben
37:31 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Then they got Joseph's robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:31 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:31 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:31 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:31 JFB -> Commentary on 37:31 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:31 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:31 TSK -> Entry for 37:31 WEN -> Notes on 37:31 NTB -> Deception; Falsehood; Hypocrisy; Ishmaelites; Joseph TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Deceit; Goat, The; Lying ATS -> Joseph BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations EBD -> Cattle HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Honesty; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering
37:32 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] They took the ornamented robe back to their father and said, "We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son's robe."	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:32 BCC -> Commentary on 37:32 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:32 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:32 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:32 JFB -> Commentary on 37:32 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:32 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:32 TSK -> Entry for 37:32 WEN -> Notes on 37:32 NTB -> Deception; Falsehood; Hypocrisy; Ishmaelites; Joseph TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Lying, Examples of; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children; Truth-Falsehood TTT -> Deceit; Lying ATS -> Joseph BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Honesty; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering
37:33 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] He recognized it and said, "It is my son's robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces."	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:33 BCC -> Commentary on 37:33 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:33 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:33 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:33 JFB -> Commentary on 37:33 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:33 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:33 TSK -> Entry for 37:33 WEN -> Notes on 37:33 NTB -> Deception; Falsehood; Hypocrisy; Ishmaelites; Joseph TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children ATS -> Joseph BED -> Envy; Evil; Family Life and Relations HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Honesty; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering
37:34 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.	Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 37:34 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:34 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:34 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:34 JFB -> Commentary on 37:34 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:34 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:34 TSK -> Entry for 37:34 WEN -> Notes on 37:34 NTB -> Bereavement; Deception; Falsehood; Hypocrisy; Ishmaelites; Jacob; Joseph; Mourning; Rending; Sackcloth; Sorrow TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Clothes Rent; Clothing; Dead, The; Home; Joy-Sorrow; Mourning; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Rending of Clothes; Sackcloth; Stories for Children TTT -> Dead, The; Sackcloth ATS -> Joseph; Sack, Sackcloth BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations EBD -> Dress; Mourn; Sackcloth HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Grief And Mourning; Jacob; Pentateuch; Rending Of Garments; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Mourning
37:35 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. "No," he said, "in mourning will I go down to the grave F193 to my son." So his father wept for him.	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:35 BCC -> Commentary on 37:35 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:35 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:35 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:35 JFB -> Commentary on 37:35 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:35 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:35 SRN -> Study Notes on 37:35 TSK -> Entry for 37:35 WEN -> Notes on 37:35 NTB -> Bereavement; Deception; Falsehood; Hell; Hypocrisy; Ishmaelites; Jacob; Joseph; Sorrow; Weeping TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Dead, The; Family; Fathers'; Grief; Home; Joy-Sorrow; Love; Mourning; Parental; Parents; Paternal Love; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Children ATS -> Joseph BED -> Consolation; Death, Mortality; Envy; Family Life and Relations EBD -> Hell; Immortality; Mourn HBD -> Aging; Brothers; Creation; Genesis; Grief And Mourning; Jacob; Pentateuch; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Hell
37:36 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Meanwhile, the Midianites F194 sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard.	Study Resource List ACC -> Commentary on 37:36 BCC -> Commentary on 37:36 GEB -> Study Notes on 37:36 GSB -> Study Notes on 37:36 GUZ -> Commentary on 37:36 JFB -> Commentary on 37:36 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 37:36 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 37:36 TSK -> Entry for 37:36 NTB -> Captain; Commerce; Egypt; Egyptians; Executioner; Ishmaelites; Joseph; Midianites; Potiphar; Servant TCR -> Bible Stories for Children; Children; Home; Midianites; Pleasant Sunday Afternoons; Religion; Stories for Children TTT -> Commerce; Midianites; Servants ATS -> Joseph; Midianites; Pharaoh; Pharaoh; Potiphar BED -> Envy; Family Life and Relations EBD -> Captain; Chamberlain; Cherethim; Guard; Joseph; Midianite; Potiphar HBD -> Aging; Bodyguard; Brothers; Chamberlain; Creation; Eunuch; Genesis; Grief And Mourning; Guard; Jacob; Midian, Midianites; Pentateuch; Potiphar; Sacrifice And Offering SBD -> Executioner; Potiphar
FOOTNOTES: F191 The meaning of the Hebrew for richly ornamented is uncertain; also in verses 23 and 32. F192 That is, about 8 ounces (about 0.2 kilogram) F193 Hebrew Sheol F194 Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also verse 28); Masoretic Text Medanites

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