Genesis 49:23 - Easy To Read Version

²³ Many people turned and fought against him. People with arrows became his enemies.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and hated him:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Skilled archers have bitterly attacked and sorely worried him; they have shot at him and persecuted him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecuted him:

Common English Bible

²³ They attacked him fiercely and fired arrows; the archers attacked him furiously.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ But those who held darts, provoked him, and they contend with him, and they envied him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ But they that held darts provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him.

Genesis 49:23 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 37:18

Joseph’s brothers saw him coming from far away. They decided to make a plan to kill him.

Genesis 37:24

Then they threw him into an empty well that was dry.

Genesis 37:28

When the Midianite traders came by, the brothers took Joseph out of the well. They sold him to the traders for 20 pieces of silver. The traders took him to Egypt.

Genesis 37:4

Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more than he loved them. They hated their brother because of this. They refused to say nice things to Joseph.

Genesis 42:21

They said to each other, “We are being punished for the bad thing we did to our younger brother Joseph. We saw the trouble he was in. He begged us to save him. But we refused to listen. So now we are in trouble.”

Genesis 49:22

“Joseph is very successful. Joseph is like a vine covered with fruit, like a vine growing by a spring, like a vine growing along a fence.

Genesis 49:24

But he won the fight with his mighty bow and his skillful arms. He gets power from the Mighty One of Jacob, from the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

Psalm 118:13

My enemy attacked me\par and almost destroyed me.\par But the Lord helped me.\par

Psalm 64:3

They have told many bad lies about me.\par Their tongues are like sharp swords,\par their bitter words like arrows.\par

John 16:33

“I told you these things so that you can have peace in me. In this world you will have trouble. But be brave! I have defeated the world!”

Acts 14:22

In those cities Paul and Barnabas made the followers \{of Jesus\} stronger. They helped them to stay in the faith. Paul and Barnabas said, “We must suffer many things on our way into God’s kingdom.”