Genesis 37 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And Yaʽ

² This is the genealogy of Yaʽ

³ And Yisra’ĕ

⁴ But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and were not able to speak peaceably to him.

⁵ And Yosĕ

⁶ And he said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have dreamed:

⁷ “See, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field, and see, my sheaf rose up and also stood up. And see, your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.”

⁸ And his brothers said to him, “Shall you indeed reign over us? Shall you indeed rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

⁹ And he dreamed still another dream and related it to his brothers, and said, “See, I have dreamed another dream, and see, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”

¹⁰ And he related it to his father and his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall we, your mother and I and your brothers, indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?”

¹¹ And his brothers envied him, but his father guarded the word.

¹² And his brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Sheḵ

¹³ And Yisra’ĕ

¹⁴ And he said to him, “Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the sheep, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him out of the Valley of Ḥ

¹⁵ And a certain man found him, and see, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, “What do you seek?”

¹⁶ And he said, “I am seeking my brothers. Please inform me where they are feeding their sheep.”

¹⁷ And the man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go towards Dothan.’ ” So Yosĕ

¹⁸ And they saw him from a distance, and before he came near them, they plotted against him, to kill him.

¹⁹ And they said to each other, “See, this master of dreams is coming!

²⁰ “Now, then, come and let us now kill him and throw him into some pit, and shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ Let us then see what comes of his dreams!”

²¹ But Re’uḇ

²² And Re’uḇ

²³ So it came to be, when Yosĕ

²⁴ And they took him and threw him into a pit. And the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

²⁵ And they sat down to eat a meal. And they lifted their eyes and looked and saw a company of Yishmaʽ

²⁶ And Yehuḏ

²⁷ “Come and let us sell him to the Yishmaʽ

²⁸ And men, Miḏ

²⁹ And Re’uḇ

³⁰ And he returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! And I, where am I to go?”

³¹ So they took Yosĕ

³² and sent the long robe and brought it to their father and said, “We have found this. Please look, is it the robe of your son or not?”

³³ And he recognised it and said, “It is my son’s robe. An evil beast has devoured him. Yosĕ

³⁴ And Yaʽ

³⁵ And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said, “Now let me go down into the grave to my son in mourning.” So his father wept for him.

³⁶ And the Miḏ