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Genesis Chapter 37

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GENESIS

Genesis 37

1Iaakob nowe dwelt in the lande, wherein his father was a stranger, in the lande of Canaan.
Genesis 17:8, Genesis 17:8, Genesis 23:4, Genesis 23:4, Genesis 28:4
2These are the generations of Iaakob, when Ioseph was seuenteene yeere olde: he kept sheepe with his brethren, and the childe was with the sonnes of Bilhah, and with the sonnes of Zilpah, his fathers wiues. And Ioseph brought vnto their father their euill saying.
Genesis 35:25, Genesis 35:26, Genesis 35:25, Genesis 35:26, Genesis 35:22
3Nowe Israel loued Ioseph more then all his sonnes, because he begate him in his old age, and he made him a coat of many colours.
Genesis 37:32, John 13:22, John 13:23, 2 Samuel 13:18, Genesis 37:32
4So when his brethren sawe that their father loued him more then all his brethren, then they hated him, and could not speake peaceably vnto him.
Genesis 27:41, Genesis 27:41, 1 John 4:20, 1 John 3:12, Psalms 69:4
5And Ioseph dreamed a dreame, and told his brethren, who hated him so much the more.
Genesis 28:12, Genesis 28:12, John 17:14, Genesis 42:9, Joel 2:28
6For he saide vnto them, Heare, I pray you, this dreame which I haue dreamed.
Genesis 44:18, Genesis 44:18, Judges 9:7, Judges 9:7
7Beholde nowe, wee were binding sheues in the middes of the field: and loe, my shefe arose and also stoode vpright, and behold, your sheues compassed rounde about, and did reuerence to my shefe.
Genesis 42:6, Genesis 44:14, Genesis 42:6, Genesis 44:14, Genesis 43:26
8Then his brethren saide to him, What, shalt thou reigne ouer vs, and rule vs? or shalt thou haue altogether dominion ouer vs? And they hated him so much the more, for his dreames, and for his wordes.
1 Samuel 10:27, Acts 7:35, 1 Samuel 10:27, Acts 7:35, Psalms 2:3
9Againe hee dreamed an other dreame, and tolde it his brethren, and saide, Behold, I haue had one dreame more, and beholde, the Sunne and the Moone and eleuen starres did reuerence to me.
Acts 7:9, Acts 7:14, Acts 7:9, Acts 7:14, Genesis 37:7
10Then he tolde it vnto his father and to his brethren, and his father rebuked him, and saide vnto him, What is this dreame, which thou hast dreamed? shall I, and thy mother, and thy brethren come in deede and fall on the ground before thee?
Genesis 27:29, Genesis 27:29, Philippians 2:10, Philippians 2:11, Genesis 37:7
11And his brethren enuied him, but his father noted the saying.
Acts 7:9, Acts 7:9, Luke 2:19, Luke 2:51, Luke 2:19
12Then his brethren went to keepe their fathers sheepe in Shechem.
Genesis 34:25, Genesis 34:31, Genesis 37:1, Genesis 33:18, Genesis 34:25
13And Israel said vnto Ioseph, Doe not thy brethren keepe in Shechem? come and I will send thee to them.
Matthew 10:16, Genesis 22:1, 1 Samuel 17:17, 1 Samuel 17:20, Luke 20:13
14And he answered him, I am here. Then he saide vnto him, Goe now, see whether it bee well with thy brethren, and how the flocks prosper, and bring me word againe. so hee sent him from the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Genesis 35:27, Genesis 35:27, Psalms 125:5, Luke 19:42, Psalms 125:5
15Then a man found him: for lo, hee was wandring in the fielde, and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
Judges 4:22, Judges 4:22, Genesis 21:14, John 18:7, John 4:27
16And he answered, I seeke my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they keepe sheepe.
Luke 19:10, Luke 19:10, Song of Solomon 1:7, Song of Solomon 1:7
17And the man said, they are departed hece: for I heard them say, Let vs goe vnto Dothan. Then went Ioseph after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
2 Kings 6:13, 2 Kings 6:13
18And when they sawe him a farre off, euen before he came at them, they conspired against him for to slay him.
Acts 23:12, Acts 23:12, Psalms 37:32, Mark 14:1, Psalms 37:12
19For they sayd one to another, Behold, this dreamer commeth.
Genesis 28:12, Genesis 28:12, Genesis 49:23, Genesis 37:5, Genesis 37:11
20Come now therefore, and let vs slay him, and cast him into some pitte, and wee will say, A wicked beast hath deuoured him: then wee shall see, what will come of his dreames.
Titus 3:3, Proverbs 27:4, Titus 3:3, Proverbs 27:4, Matthew 2:2
21But when Reuben heard that, he deliuered him out of their handes, and saide, Let vs not kill him.
Genesis 42:22, Genesis 42:22, Matthew 10:28, Genesis 9:5, Joshua 10:28
22Also Reuben saide vnto them, Shed not blood, but cast him into this pitte that is in the wildernesse, and lay no hande vpon him. Thus he said, that he might deliuer him out of their hand, and restore him to his father againe.
Exodus 24:11, Genesis 42:22, Deuteronomy 13:9, Genesis 22:12, Acts 12:1
23Now when Ioseph was come vnto his brethren, they stript Ioseph out of his coate, his particoloured coate that was vpon him.
Genesis 37:3, Genesis 42:21, Genesis 37:31, Genesis 37:33, Matthew 27:28
24And they tooke him, and cast him into a pit, and the pit was emptie, without water in it.
Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 38:6, Psalms 130:1, Psalms 130:2, Zechariah 9:11
25Then they sate them downe to eate bread: and they lift vp their eyes and looked, and behold, there came a companie of Ishmeelites from Gilead, and their camels laden with spicerie, and balme, and myrrhe, and were going to cary it downe into Egypt.
Genesis 43:11, Genesis 37:28, Genesis 43:11, Genesis 37:28, Jeremiah 8:22
26Then Iudah said vnto his brethren, What auaileth it, if we slay our brother, though wee keepe his blood secret?
Genesis 37:20, Genesis 37:20, Genesis 4:10, Genesis 4:10, Matthew 16:26
27Come and let vs sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our handes be vpon him: for he is our brother and our flesh: and his brethren obeyed.
Genesis 42:21, Matthew 16:26, Genesis 42:21, Matthew 16:26, 1 Samuel 18:17
28Then the Midianites marchant men passed by, and they drewe foorth, and lift Ioseph out of the pit, and solde Ioseph vnto the Ishmeelites for twentie pieces of siluer: who brought Ioseph into Egypt.
Acts 7:9, Psalms 105:17, Acts 7:9, Psalms 105:17, Genesis 25:2
29Afterwarde Reuben returned to the pit, and beholde, Ioseph was not in the pit: then he rent his clothes,
Genesis 37:34, Job 1:20, Genesis 37:34, Job 1:20, Genesis 44:13
30And returned to his brethren, and said, The childe is not yonder, and I, whither shall I goe?
Genesis 42:13, Genesis 42:13, Genesis 42:32, Jeremiah 31:15, Genesis 42:32
31And they tooke Iosephs coate, and killed a kidde of the goates, and dipped the coate in the blood.
Genesis 37:23, Genesis 37:23, Genesis 37:3, Genesis 37:3, Proverbs 28:13
32So they sent that particoloured coat, and they brought it vnto their father, and saide, This haue we founde: see nowe, whether it be thy sonnes coate, or no.
Luke 15:30, Genesis 44:20, Genesis 44:23, Luke 15:30, Genesis 44:20
33Then he knewe it and said, It is my sonnes coate: a wicked beast hath deuoured him: Ioseph is surely torne in pieces.
Genesis 37:20, Genesis 44:28, Genesis 37:20, Genesis 44:28, Proverbs 14:15
34And Iaakob rent his clothes, and put sackecloth about his loynes, and sorowed for his sonne a long season.
Genesis 37:29, Genesis 37:29, 2 Samuel 3:31, 2 Samuel 3:31, Nehemiah 9:1
35Then all his sonnes and all his daughters rose vp to comfort him, but he woulde not be comforted, but said, Surely I will go downe into the graue vnto my sonne mourning: so his father wept for him.
2 Samuel 12:17, Genesis 42:38, Job 2:11, 2 Samuel 12:17, Genesis 42:38
36And the Midianites solde him into Egypt vnto Potiphar an Eunuche of Pharaohs, and his chiefe stewarde.
Genesis 37:28, Genesis 40:4, Genesis 37:28, Genesis 40:4, Isaiah 56:3

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