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DARBY'S TRANSLATION

37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned -- in the land of Canaan.

37:2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, fed the flock with his brethren; and he was doing service with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father`s wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them.

37:3 And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was son of his old age; and he made him a vest of many colours.

37:4 And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, and they hated him, and could not greet him with friendliness.

37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told [it] to his brethren, and they hated him yet the more.

37:6 And he said to them, Hear, I pray you, this dream, which I have dreamt:

37:7 Behold, we were binding sheaves in the fields, and lo, my sheaf rose up, and remained standing; and behold, your sheaves came round about and bowed down to my sheaf.

37:8 And his brethren said to him, Wilt thou indeed be a king over us? wilt thou indeed rule over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words.

37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.

37:10 And he told [it] to his father and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamt? Shall we indeed come, I and thy mother and thy brethren, to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

37:11 And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying.

37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father`s flock at Shechem.

37:13 And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed [the flock] at Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

37:14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see after the welfare of thy brethren, and after the welfare of the flock; and bring me word again. And he sent him out of the vale of Hebron; and he came towards Shechem.

37:15 And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the country; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

37:16 And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed [their flocks].

37:17 And the man said, They have removed from this; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them at Dothan.

37:18 And when they saw him from afar, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to put him to death.

37:19 And they said one to another, Behold, there comes that dreamer!

37:20 And now come and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast has devoured him; and we will see what becomes of his dreams.

37:21 And Reuben heard [it], and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

37:22 And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood: cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness; but lay no hand upon him -- in order that he might deliver him out of their hand, to bring him to his father again.

37:23 And it came to pass when Joseph came to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his vest, the vest of many colours, which he had on;

37:24 and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty -- there was no water in it.

37:25 And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and ladanum -- going to carry [it] down to Egypt.

37:26 And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it that we kill our brother and secrete his blood?

37:27 Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites; but let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened [to him].

37:28 And Midianitish men, merchants, passed by; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver-pieces; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.

37:29 And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his garments,

37:30 and returned to his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go?

37:31 And they took Joseph`s vest, and slaughtered a buck of the goats, and dipped the vest in the blood;

37:32 and they sent the vest of many colours and had it carried to their father, and said, This have we found: discern now whether it is thy son`s vest or not.

37:33 And he discerned it, and said, [It is] my son`s vest! an evil beast has devoured him: Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces!

37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard.