Genesis 37:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² These are the descendants of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² This is the history of the descendants of Jacob and this is Jacob's line. Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's [secondary] wives; and Joseph brought to his father a bad report of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

² These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of them unto their father.

Common English Bible

² This is the account of Jacob’s descendants. Joseph was 17 years old and tended the flock with his brothers. While he was helping the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, Joseph told their father unflattering things about them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And these are his generations. Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers, when he was still a boy. And he was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, the wives of his father. And he accused his brothers to their father of a most sinful crime.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And these are his generations. Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the dock with his brethren, being but a boy. And he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives. And he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.

Genesis 37:2 Cross References

Genesis 10:1

These are the descendants of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; children were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 2:4

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Genesis 30:4

So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Genesis 30:9

When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 35:22

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

Genesis 41:46

Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 42:8

Although Joseph had recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

Genesis 45:6

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are five more years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

Genesis 46:34

you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our ancestors,’ in order that you may settle in the land of Goshen, because all shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humans, he made them in the likeness of God.

Genesis 6:9

These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.

1 Corinthians 1:11

For it has been made clear to me by Chloe’s people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters.

1 Corinthians 11:18

For, to begin with, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you and the sort of sexual immorality that is not found even among gentiles, for a man is living with his father’s wife.