Genesis 37 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Joseph's Dream

Gen 37:1Ya`akov lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Kana`an.

Gen 37:2This is the history of the generations of Ya`akov. Yosef, 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. Yosef brought an evil report of them to their father.

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Gen 37:3Now Yisra'el loved Yosef 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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Gen 37:4His 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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Gen 37:5Yosef dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

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Gen 37:6He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

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Gen 37:7for, 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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Gen 37:8His 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.

Gen 37:9

Gen 37:9He 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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Gen 37:10He 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 eretz?"

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Gen 37:11His brothers envied him; but his father kept this saying in mind.

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Gen 37:12His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shekhem.

Gen 37:13

Gen 37:13Yisra'el said to Yosef, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shekhem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."

Gen 37:14

Gen 37:14He 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 Hevron, and he came to Shekhem.

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Gen 37:15A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, "What are you looking for?"

Gen 37:16

Gen 37:16He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."

Gen 37:17

Gen 37:17The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dotan.'" Yosef went after his brothers, and found them in Dotan.

The Plot against Joseph

Gen 37:18

Gen 37:18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

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Gen 37:19They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

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Gen 37:20Come 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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Gen 37:21Re'uven heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."

Gen 37:22

Gen 37:22Re'uven 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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Gen 37:23It happened, when Yosef came to his brothers, that they stripped Yosef of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

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Gen 37:24and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

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Gen 37:25They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Yishme`elim was coming from Gil`ad, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Mitzrayim.

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Gen 37:26Yehudah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

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Gen 37:27Come, and let's sell him to the Yishme`elim, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

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Gen 37:28Midyanim who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Yosef out of the pit, and sold Yosef to the Yishme`elim for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Yosef into Mitzrayim.

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Gen 37:29Re'uven returned to the pit; and saw that Yosef wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

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Gen 37:30He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"

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Gen 37:31They took Yosef's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

Gen 37:32

Gen 37:32They 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."

Gen 37:33

Gen 37:33He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Yosef is without doubt torn in pieces."

Gen 37:34

Gen 37:34Ya`akov tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Gen 37:35

Gen 37:35All 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 She'ol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.

Gen 37:36

Gen 37:36The Midyanim sold him into Mitzrayim to Potifar, an officer of Par`oh's, the captain of the guard.

The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

Genesis 37 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Joseph's Dream

The Plot against Joseph

Pericope