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Genesis 37:12
Genesis 37:12 is verse 12 of Genesis chapter 37, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
King James Version
And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
World English Bible
His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
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Genesis 37:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
11 And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
12 Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
13 Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
14 Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 37:1Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
Genesis 33:18After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
Genesis 34:25Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
Genesis 34:26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
Genesis 34:27Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
Genesis 34:28They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
Genesis 34:29They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.
Genesis 34:30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
Genesis 34:31But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”