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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 Catholic Public Domain 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="../">CPDV</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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/37-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Joseph’s Dreams<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Jacob lived in the land of Canaan, where his father sojourned. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And these are his generations. Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers, when he was still a boy. And he was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, the wives of his father. And he accused his brothers to their father of a most sinful crime. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had conceived him in his old age. And he made him a tunic, woven of many colors. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then his brothers, seeing that he was loved by his father more than all his other sons, hated him, and they were not able to say anything peacefully to him.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then it also happened that he recounted the vision of a dream to his brothers, for which reason a greater hatred began to be nurtured. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he said to them, “Listen to my dream that I saw. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I thought we were binding sheaves in the field. And my sheaf seemed to rise up and stand, and your sheaves, standing in a circle, reverenced my sheaf.” <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>His brothers responded: “Would you be our king? Or will we be subject to your dominion?” Therefore, this matter of his dreams and words provided kindling to their envy and hatred.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Likewise, he saw another dream, which he explained to his brothers, saying, “I saw by a dream, as if the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars were reverencing me.” <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And when he had related this to his father and brothers, his father rebuked him, and he said: “What does it mean to you, this dream that you have seen? Should I, and your mother, and your brothers reverence you upon the earth?” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore, his brothers were envious of him. Yet truly, his father considered the matter silently.<p> <A name="13"></a><p class="hdg">Joseph Sold into Egypt<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../acts/7.htm#9">Acts 7:9–14</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And while his brothers were lodging at Shechem, pasturing their father’s flocks, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Israel said to him: “Your brothers are pasturing the sheep at Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.” And when he answered, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“I am ready,” he said to him, “Go, and see if everything is prospering with your brothers and the cattle, and report to me what is happening.” So, having been sent from the valley of Hebron, he arrived at Shechem.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And a man found him wandering in a field, and he asked him what he was seeking. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So he responded: “I seek my brothers. Tell me where they pasture the flocks.” <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the man said to him: “They have withdrawn from this place. But I heard them saying, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ” Therefore, Joseph continued on after his brothers, and he found them at Dothan.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And, when they had seen him from afar, before he approached them, they decided to kill him. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they said one to another: “Behold, the dreamer approaches. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Come, let us kill him and cast him into the old cistern. And let us say: ‘an evil wild beast has devoured him.’ And then it will become apparent what his dreams will do for him.” <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But Reuben, on hearing this, strove to free him from their hands, and he said: <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Do not take away his life, nor shed blood. But throw him into this cistern, which is in the wilderness, and so keep your hands harmless.” But he said this, wanting to rescue him from their hands, so as to return him to his father. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And so, as soon as he came to his brothers, they very quickly stripped him of his tunic, which was ankle-length and woven of many colors, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and they cast him into an old cistern, which held no water.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ishmaelites, travelers coming from Gilead, with their camels, carrying spices, and resin, and oil of myrrh into Egypt. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Therefore, Judah said to his brothers: “What will it profit us, if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>It is better that he be sold to the Ishmaelites, and then our hands will not be defiled. For he is our brother and our flesh.” His brothers agreed to his words. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And when the Midianite merchants were passing by, they drew him from the cistern, and they sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And these led him into Egypt.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Reuben, returning to the cistern, did not find the boy. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And rending his garments, he went to his brothers and said, “The boy is not present, and so where shall I go?”<p> <A name="32"></a><p class="hdg">Jacob Mourns Joseph<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then they took his tunic, and they dipped it in the blood of a young goat, which they had killed, <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>sending those who carried it to their father, and they said: “We found this. See whether it is the tunic of your son or not.” <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And when the father acknowledged it, he said: “It is the tunic of my son. An evil wild beast has eaten him; a beast has devoured Joseph.” <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And tearing his garments, he was clothed in haircloth, mourning his son for a long time. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Then, when all of his sons gathered together to ease their father’s sorrow, he was not willing to accept consolation, but he said: “I will descend in mourning to my son in the underworld.” And while he persevered in weeping, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/37-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>the Midianites in Egypt sold Joseph to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, instructor of the soldiers.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/36.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 36"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 36" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/38.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 38"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 38" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>