Genesis 37:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² This is the genealogy of Yaʽ

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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.

Genesis 37:2 Cross References

Genesis 10:1

And this is the genealogy of the sons of Noaḥ

Genesis 2:4

These are the births of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that יהוה  Elohim made earth and heavens.

Genesis 30:4

So she gave him Bilhah her female servant as wife, and Yaʽ

Genesis 30:9

And Lĕ

Genesis 35:22

And it came to be, when Yisra’ĕ

Genesis 41:46

Now Yosĕ

Genesis 42:8

So Yosĕ

Genesis 45:6

“For two years now the scarcity of food has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there is neither ploughing nor harvesting.

Genesis 46:34

that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ so that you dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Mitsrites.”

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the genealogy of Aḏ

Genesis 6:9

This is the genealogy of Noaḥ

John 7:7

“It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it hates Me because I bear witness of it, that its works are wicked.

1 Corinthians 1:11

For I have been informed concerning you, my brothers, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you.

1 Corinthians 11:18

For in the first place, I hear that when you come together as an assembly, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is commonly reported that there is whoring among you, and such whoring as is not even named among the gentiles, so as one to have his father’s wife!