Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 37

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

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

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

He dreamt yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamt yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

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

He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamt: for 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.”

Come 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.”

Midianites 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. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

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

Reuben 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.