Genesis 37:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a [distinctive] long tunic with sleeves.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.

Common English Bible

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he was born when Jacob was old. Jacob had made for him a long robe.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had conceived him in his old age. And he made him a tunic, woven of many colors.

Genesis 37:3 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:18

3 And it came to pass after two years, that the sheep of Absalom were shorn in Baalhasor, which is near Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons:

Genesis 37:32

3 And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.

Genesis 37:23

4 And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.

John 3:35

There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

Ezekiel 16:16

4 That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street.

Judges 5:30

And pitching their tents among them, wasted all things as they were in the blade even to the entrance of Gaza: and they left nothing at all in Israel for sustenance of life, nor sheep, nor oxen, nor asses.

Genesis 37:31

2 Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.