Verse 26
Genesis 37:26
GOD'S WORD Translation
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Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוּדָ֖ה אֶל אֶחָ֑י/ו מַה בֶּ֗צַע כִּ֤י נַהֲרֹג֙ אֶת אָחִ֔י/נוּ וְ/כִסִּ֖ינוּ אֶת דָּמֽ/וֹ
English Translation
And Judah said to his brothers, "What benefit is it if we kill our brother and cover his blood?"
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Chapter 37 Context
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Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
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This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the...
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he ma...
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His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and cou...
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Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
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He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
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for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright;...
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His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?”...
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He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet ano...
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He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this...
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His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
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His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
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Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you...
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He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bri...
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A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you...
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He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”
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The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’”
Joseph went after...
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They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
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They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
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Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil...
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Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
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Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no h...
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When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was...
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and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
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They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelit...
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Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
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Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother,...
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Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold...
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Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
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He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”
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They took Joseph’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
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They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found thi...
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He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without...
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Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
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All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said,...
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The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.
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