Genesis 37:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem Ham and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

Genesis 2:4

These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.

Genesis 30:4

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

Genesis 30:9

When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.

Genesis 35:22

And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that 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

And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 42:8

And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

Genesis 45:6

For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in the which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.

Genesis 46:34

that ye shall say, Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 6:9

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

1 Corinthians 1:11

For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them which are of the household of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

1 Corinthians 11:18

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father's wife.