Genesis 37:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And when they saw him far off, even before he came near to them, they conspired to kill him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ They saw Joseph in the distance before he got close to them, and they plotted to kill him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And, when they had seen him from afar, before he approached them, they decided to kill him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him.

Genesis 37:18 Cross References

Genesis 27:41

Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 37:19

They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer.

Genesis 50:15

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”

Genesis 50:20

As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Psalm 105:25

He turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.

Psalm 109:4

In return for my love they accuse me, even as I make prayer for them.

Psalm 31:13

Yea, I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

Psalm 31:14

But I trust in thee, O Lord, I say, “Thou art my God.”

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him;

Psalm 37:32

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

Psalm 94:21

They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death.

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’

Matthew 27:1

When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death;

Mark 12:7

But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

Mark 14:1

It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth, and kill him;

John 11:53

So from that day on they took counsel how to put him to death.

Acts 23:12

When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

1 Samuel 19:1

And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.