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Genesis 37:2
Genesis 37:2 is verse 2 of Genesis chapter 37, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
King James Version
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
World English Bible
This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, 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. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
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Genesis 37:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
2 This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
4 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 2:4This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.
Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
Genesis 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 10:1This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
Genesis 30:4So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
Genesis 30:9When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
Genesis 35:22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Genesis 35:25The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 35:26And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
1 Samuel 2:22Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
1 Samuel 2:23“Why are you doing these things?” Eli said to his sons. “I hear about your wicked deeds from all these people.
1 Samuel 2:24No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.
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1 Corinthians 11:18First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.