Genesis

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Genesis 37:25
Hadar became king; his city's name was to him, "What kind of dreams have you Pau and his wife's name was Meheta- dreamed? Am I and your mother and your bel the daughter of Matred and grand- brothers supposed to come and bow down daughter of Me-zahab.
to the ground in front of you?" "His broth40 These are the names of Esau's tribal ers were jealous of him, but his father took chiefs according to their families, their careful note of the matter. locations, and their names: Chief Timna, Chief Alvah, Chief Jetheth, 41Chief Oho- Joseph's brothers take revenge libamah, Chief Elah, Chief Pinon, 42 Chief 2 Joseph's brothers went to tend their Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar, father's flocks near Shechem. 13 Israel said 43 Chief Magdiel, and Chief Iram. These to Joseph, “Aren't your brothers tending are Edom's tribal chiefs according to the sheep near Shechem? Come, I'll send their settlements in the land they pos- you to them." sessed. This is Esau, the ancestor of the And he said, “I'm ready." Edomites.
14 Jacob said to him, "Go! Find out how
your brothers are and how the flock is, and Joseph dreams of power
report back to me." 27 Jacob lived in the land of Canaan So Jacob sent him from the Hebron Val
where his father was an immigrant. ley. When he approached Shechem, 'Sa man 2 This is the account of Jacob's descen- found him wandering in the field and asked dants. Joseph was 17 years old and tended him, “What are you looking for?" the flock with his brothers. While he was 16 Jacob said, “I'm looking for my brothers. helping the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his Tell me, where are they tending the sheep?" father's wives, Joseph told their father un- 17The man said, "They left here. I heard flattering things about them. Now Israel them saying, 'Let's go to Dothan.'” So Joloved Joseph more than any of his other seph went after his brothers and found sons because he was born when Jacob was them in Dothan. old. Jacob had made for him a long robe. They saw Joseph in the distance before When his brothers saw that their father he got close to them, and they plotted to loved him more than any of his broth- kill him. 19The brothers said to each other, ers, they hated him and couldn't even talk “Here comes the big dreamer. 2° Come on nicely to him.
now, let's kill him and throw him into one 5 Joseph had a dream and told it to his of the cisterns, and we'll say a wild animal brothers, which made them hate him even devoured him. Then we will see what bemore. He said to them, “Listen to this comes of his dreams!" dream I had. When we were binding stalks 21When Reuben heard what they said, he of grain in the field, my stalk got up and saved him from them, telling them, “Let's stood upright, while your stalks gathered not take his life.” 22 Reuben said to them, around it and bowed down to my stalk.” “Don't spill his blood! Throw him into this
& His brothers said to him, “Will you re- desert cistern, but don't lay a hand on him.” ally be our king and rule over us?” So they He intended to save Joseph from them and hated him even more because of the dreams take him back to his father. he told them.
23When Joseph reached his brothers, 'Then Joseph had another dream and de- they stripped off Joseph's long robe, 24 took scribed it to his brothers: "I've just dreamed him, and threw him into the cistern, an again, and this time the sun and the moon empty cistern with no water in it. 25When and eleven stars were bowing down to me." they sat down to eat, they looked up and
10When he described it to his father and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from . brothers, his father scolded him and said Gilead, with camels carrying sweet resin,
O LXX, Vulg; Heb uncertain