Verse 27
Genesis 37:27
New Living Translation
27
Instead of hurting him, let’s sell him to those Ishmaelite traders. After all, he is our brother — our own flesh and blood!” And his brothers agreed.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְכ֞וּ וְ/נִמְכְּרֶ֣/נּוּ לַ/יִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗ים וְ/יָדֵ֨/נוּ֙ אַל תְּהִי ב֔/וֹ כִּֽי אָחִ֥י/נוּ בְשָׂרֵ֖/נוּ ה֑וּא וַֽ/יִּשְׁמְע֖וּ אֶחָֽי/ו
English Translation
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers listened.
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Chapter 37 Context
1
So Jacob settled again in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived as a foreigner.
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This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended hi...
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Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his ol...
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But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them. They couldn...
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One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever.
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“Listen to this dream,” he said.
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“We were out in the field, tying up bundles of grain. Suddenly my bundle stood up, and your bundles...
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His brothers responded, “So you think you will be our king, do you? Do you actually think you will r...
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Soon Joseph had another dream, and again he told his brothers about it. “Listen, I have had another...
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This time he told the dream to his father as well as to his brothers, but his father scolded him. “W...
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But while his brothers were jealous of Joseph, his father wondered what the dreams meant.
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Soon after this, Joseph’s brothers went to pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem.
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When they had been gone for some time, Jacob said to Joseph, “Your brothers are pasturing the sheep...
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“Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are getting along,” Jacob said. “Then come back and bri...
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When he arrived there, a man from the area noticed him wandering around the countryside. “What are y...
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“I’m looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Do you know where they are pasturing their sheep?”
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“Yes,” the man told him. “They have moved on from here, but I heard them say, ‘Let’s go on to Dothan...
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When Joseph’s brothers saw him coming, they recognized him in the distance. As he approached, they m...
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“Here comes the dreamer!” they said.
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“Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father, ‘A wild a...
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But when Reuben heard of their scheme, he came to Joseph’s rescue. “Let’s not kill him,” he said.
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“Why should we shed any blood? Let’s just throw him into this empty cistern here in the wilderness....
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So when Joseph arrived, his brothers ripped off the beautiful robe he was wearing.
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Then they grabbed him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water...
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Then, just as they were sitting down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of camels in the dista...
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Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain by killing our brother? We’d have to cover up the cri...
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Instead of hurting him, let’s sell him to those Ishmaelite traders. After all, he is our brother — o...
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So when the Ishmaelites, who were Midianite traders, came by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of th...
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Some time later, Reuben returned to get Joseph out of the cistern. When he discovered that Joseph wa...
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Then he went back to his brothers and lamented, “The boy is gone! What will I do now?”
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Then the brothers killed a young goat and dipped Joseph’s robe in its blood.
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They sent the beautiful robe to their father with this message: “Look at what we found. Doesn’t this...
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Their father recognized it immediately. “Yes,” he said, “it is my son’s robe. A wild animal must hav...
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Then Jacob tore his clothes and dressed himself in burlap. He mourned deeply for his son for a long...
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His family all tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “I will go to my grave mourning...
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Meanwhile, the Midianite traders arrived in Egypt, where they sold Joseph to Potiphar, an officer of...
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