They saw him from a distance, and before he came near to them they conspired to kill him.
Genesis 49:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The archers fiercely attacked him; they shot at him and pressed him hard. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and hated him: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Skilled archers have bitterly attacked and sorely worried him; they have shot at him and persecuted him. American Standard Version (1901) The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecuted him: Common English Bible They attacked him fiercely and fired arrows; the archers attacked him furiously. Catholic Public Domain Version But those who held darts, provoked him, and they contend with him, and they envied him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But they that held darts provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him. |
They saw him from a distance, and before he came near to them they conspired to kill him.
and they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
When some Midianite traders passed by, they drew Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
They said to one another, “Alas, we are paying the penalty for what we did to our brother; we saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this anguish has come upon us.”
Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
Yet his bow remained taut, and his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
I have said this to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution, but take courage: I have conquered the world!”
There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”