1Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

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Genesis 17:8, Genesis 17:8, Genesis 23:4, Genesis 23:4, Genesis 28:4

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.

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Genesis 35:25, Genesis 35:26, Genesis 35:25, Genesis 35:26, Genesis 35:22

3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

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Genesis 37:32, John 13:22, John 13:23, 2 Samuel 13:18, Genesis 37:32

4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

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Genesis 27:41, Genesis 27:41, 1 John 4:20, 1 John 3:12, Psalms 69:4

5Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

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Genesis 28:12, Genesis 28:12, John 17:14, Genesis 42:9, Joel 2:28

6He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

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Genesis 44:18, Genesis 44:18, Judges 9:7, Judges 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."

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Genesis 42:6, Genesis 44:14, Genesis 42:6, Genesis 44:14, Genesis 43:26

8His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

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1 Samuel 10:27, Acts 7:35, 1 Samuel 10:27, Acts 7:35, Psalms 2:3

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."

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Acts 7:9, Acts 7:14, Acts 7:9, Acts 7:14, Genesis 37:7

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 you to the earth?"

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Genesis 27:29, Genesis 27:29, Philippians 2:10, Philippians 2:11, Genesis 37:7

11His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

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Acts 7:9, Acts 7:9, Luke 2:19, Luke 2:51, Luke 2:19

12His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

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Genesis 34:25, Genesis 34:31, Genesis 37:1, Genesis 33:18, Genesis 34:25

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."

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Matthew 10:16, Genesis 22:1, 1 Samuel 17:17, 1 Samuel 17:20, Luke 20:13

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.

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Genesis 35:27, Genesis 35:27, Psalms 125:5, Luke 19:42, Psalms 125:5

15A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

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Judges 4:22, Judges 4:22, Genesis 21:14, John 18:7, John 4:27

16He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."

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Luke 19:10, Luke 19:10, Song of Solomon 1:7, Song of Solomon 1:7

17The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

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2 Kings 6:13, 2 Kings 6:13

18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

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Acts 23:12, Acts 23:12, Psalms 37:32, Mark 14:1, Psalms 37:12

19They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

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Genesis 28:12, Genesis 28:12, Genesis 49:23, Genesis 37:5, Genesis 37:11

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."

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Titus 3:3, Proverbs 27:4, Titus 3:3, Proverbs 27:4, Matthew 2:2

21Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."

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Genesis 42:22, Genesis 42:22, Matthew 10:28, Genesis 9:5, Joshua 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.

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Exodus 24:11, Genesis 42:22, Deuteronomy 13:9, Genesis 22:12, Acts 12:1

23It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

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Genesis 37:3, Genesis 42:21, Genesis 37:31, Genesis 37:33, Matthew 27:28

24and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

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Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 38:6, Psalms 130:1, Psalms 130:2, Zechariah 9:11

25They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

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Genesis 43:11, Genesis 37:28, Genesis 43:11, Genesis 37:28, Jeremiah 8:22

26Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

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Genesis 37:20, Genesis 37:20, Genesis 4:10, Genesis 4:10, Matthew 16:26

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.

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Genesis 42:21, Matthew 16:26, Genesis 42:21, Matthew 16:26, 1 Samuel 18:17

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. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

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Acts 7:9, Psalms 105:17, Acts 7:9, Psalms 105:17, Genesis 25:2

29Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

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Genesis 37:34, Job 1:20, Genesis 37:34, Job 1:20, Genesis 44:13

30He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"

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Genesis 42:13, Genesis 42:13, Genesis 42:32, Jeremiah 31:15, Genesis 42:32

31They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

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Genesis 37:23, Genesis 37:23, Genesis 37:3, Genesis 37:3, Proverbs 28:13

32They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."

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Luke 15:30, Genesis 44:20, Genesis 44:23, Luke 15:30, Genesis 44:20

33He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."

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Genesis 37:20, Genesis 44:28, Genesis 37:20, Genesis 44:28, Proverbs 14:15

34Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

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Genesis 37:29, Genesis 37:29, 2 Samuel 3:31, 2 Samuel 3:31, Nehemiah 9:1

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.

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2 Samuel 12:17, Genesis 42:38, Job 2:11, 2 Samuel 12:17, Genesis 42:38

36The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

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Genesis 37:28, Genesis 40:4, Genesis 37:28, Genesis 40:4, Isaiah 56:3