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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 37 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/37.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/37-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Genesis 37</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/36.htm" title="Genesis 36">◄</a> Genesis 37 <a href="../genesis/38.htm" title="Genesis 38">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/37-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Jacob dwells in the land of his father’s sojournings—in the land of Canaan. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>These [are] the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, has been enjoying himself with his brothers among the flock (and he [is] a youth), with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and Joseph brings in an account of their evil to their father. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Israel has loved Joseph more than any of his sons, for he [is] a son of his old age, and has made for him a long coat; <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and his brothers see that their father has loved him more than any of his brothers, and they hate him, and have not been able to speak [to] him peaceably.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Joseph dreams a dream, and declares to his brothers, and they add still more to hate him. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he says to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>that, behold, we are binding bundles in the midst of the field, and behold, my bundle has arisen, and has also stood up, and behold, your bundles are all around, and they bow themselves to my bundle.” <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And his brothers say to him, “Do you certainly reign over us? Do you certainly rule over us?” And they add still more to hate him, for his dreams, and for his words.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he dreams yet another dream, and recounts it to his brothers, and says, “Behold, I have dreamed a dream again, and behold, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars, are bowing themselves to me.” <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And he recounts to his father, and to his brothers; and his father pushes against him, and says to him, “What [is] this dream which you have dreamed? Do we certainly come, I, and your mother, and your brothers—to bow ourselves to you, to the earth?” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And his brothers are zealous against him, and his father has watched the matter.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And his brothers go to feed the flock of their father in Shechem, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and Israel says to Joseph, “Are your brothers not feeding in Shechem? Come, and I send you to them”; and he says to him, “Here I [am]”; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and he says to him, “Now go see the peace of your brothers, and the peace of the flock, and bring me back word”; and he sends him from the Valley of Hebron, and he comes to Shechem.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And a man finds him, and behold, he is wandering in the field, and the man asks him, saying, “What do you seek?” <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he says, “I am seeking my brothers, please declare to me where they are feeding.” <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the man says, “They have journeyed from this, for I have heard some saying, Let us go to Dothan,” and Joseph goes after his brothers, and finds them in Dothan.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And they see him from afar, even before he draws near to them, and they conspire against him to put him to death. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they say to one another, “Behold, this man of the dreams comes; <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast has devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.” <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Reuben hears, and delivers him out of their hand, and says, “Let us not strike the life”; <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and Reuben says to them, “Shed no blood; cast him into this pit which [is] in the wilderness, and do not put forth a hand on him,” in order to deliver him out of their hand, to bring him back to his father. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And it comes to pass, when Joseph has come to his brothers, that they strip Joseph of his coat, the long coat which [is] on him, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and take him and cast him into the pit, and the pit [is] empty, there is no water in it.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And they sit down to eat bread, and they lift up their eyes, and look, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, and their camels carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh, going to take [them] down to Egypt. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Judah says to his brothers, “What gain when we slay our brother, and have concealed his blood? <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Come, and we sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hands are not on him, for he [is] our brother—our flesh”; and his brothers listen. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Midianite merchantmen pass by and they draw out and bring up Joseph out of the pit, and sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, and they bring Joseph into Egypt.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Reuben returns to the pit, and behold, Joseph is not in the pit, and he tears his garments, <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and he returns to his brothers and says, “The boy is not, and I—to where am I going?”<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And they take the coat of Joseph, and slaughter a kid of the goats, and dip the coat in the blood, <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>and send the long coat, and they bring [it] to their father, and say, “We have found this; please discern whether it [is] your son’s coat or not.” <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And he discerns it and says, “My son’s coat! An evil beast has devoured him; torn—Joseph is torn!” <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Jacob tears his raiment, and puts sackcloth on his loins, and becomes a mourner for his son many days, <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuses to comfort himself, and says, “For I go down to my son mourning, to Sheol,” and his father weeps for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And the Midianites have sold him to Egypt, to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, head of the executioners.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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