Genesis, Chapter 37:

Verses from Genesis, Chapter 37 of the Book of Genesis of the Bible.

Joseph's dream

• 1. Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojourns, in the land of Canaan.
• 2. This is the story of Jacob's descendants: Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, tended the flock with his brothers; while he was still young, he lived with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought his father bad news about them.
• 3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was a son of his old age; and he ordered a coat of different colors to be made for him.
• 4. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all of them, they hated him and could no longer speak to him peacefully.
• 5. Joseph had a dream, which he told his brothers; That's why they hated him even more.
• 6. He said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
• 7. Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose, and stood also, and your sheaves surrounded it, and bowed themselves to my sheaf.
• 8. His brothers answered him: Will you then truly reign over us? Will you truly have dominion over us? That's why they hated him even more for his dreams and his words.
• 9. And Joseph dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, saying: Behold, I dreamed another dream; and behold, the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars bowed down to me.
• 10. When he had told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall we, your mother and I, and your brothers, bow down to you on the ground?
• 11. His brothers therefore envied him; His father, however, kept the case in his heart.

José is sold by his brothers

• 12. So his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem,
• 13. Israel said to Joseph: Do not your brothers feed the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. Joseph answered him: Here I am.
• 14. Israel said to him, Go, then, and see whether your brothers and the flock are doing well, and bring me an answer. So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and Joseph went to Shechem.
• 15. And he found him a man; and behold, he wandered in the field; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
• 16. He answered: I seek my brethren; tell me, I pray thee, where they pasture.
• 17. The man said to him: They have gone from here; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. Joseph followed his brothers and found them in Dothan.
• 18 When they saw him from afar, before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him.
• 19. They said among themselves: Here comes the master of dreams!
• 20. Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into one of these pits, and we will say, A wild beast hath devoured him; and we will see that it will be your dream.
• 21. But when Reuben heard this, he delivered him out of their hands, and said, Let us not take his life.
• 22. Reuben said to them further: Shed no blood; throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand on him; to deliver him out of their hand, to return him to his father.
• 23. It happened that, when Joseph came to his brothers, they took away his tunic, the multicolored tunic that he was wearing;
• 24. and taking him, they threw him into a pit; The pit is empty, without water.
• 25. Then they sat down to eat bread; and they looked up and saw that a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, and their camels were bringing spices, balsam and myrrh, which they carried to Egypt.
• 26. Then Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we kill our brother and hide his blood?
• 27. Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; because he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers heard him.
• 28. As the Midianite traders passed by, Joseph's brothers took him out and lifted him out of the pit; and they sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
• 29. When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in it, he tore his clothes.
• 30. Returning to his brothers, he said: The boy is not there; and I, where will I go?
• 31. Then they took Joseph's coat, and killed a goat, and dipped it in the blood;
• 32. and they sent the tunic of various colors, ordering it to be taken to their father, and they said: We have found this; see if it is your son's tunic or not.
• 33. He recognized it, and said: It is my son's coat; a wild beast ate him, Joseph was certainly torn to pieces.
• 34. Then Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
• 35. All his sons and all his daughters rose up to console him; But he refused to be comforted, and said, Weeping, I will go down to my son to the grave. This is how his father cried.
• 36. And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh's officer, captain of the guard.

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