They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
Genesis 49:23 - English Standard Version 2016 The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely, 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and hated him: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Skilled archers have bitterly attacked and sorely worried him; they have shot at him and persecuted him. American Standard Version (1901) The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecuted him: Common English Bible They attacked him fiercely and fired arrows; the archers attacked him furiously. Catholic Public Domain Version But those who held darts, provoked him, and they contend with him, and they envied him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But they that held darts provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him. |
They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
“Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.