# Genesis 37

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/37

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojourns, in the land of Canaan.
2. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, a youth of seventeen years, was pasturing the flock with his brothers, while associating with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; then Joseph brought a bad report about them to their father.
3. Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.
4. His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
5. Joseph had a dream and told his brothers, and they hated him even more.
6. He said to them, "Please listen to this dream that I dreamed."
7. Look, there we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field, and look, my sheaf arose and also stood erect; and look, your sheaves surrounded it and bowed down to my sheaf.
8. His brothers said to him, "Will you really reign over us, or really rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
9. He dreamed another dream and recounted it to his brothers. He said, "See, I dreamed a dream again; see, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
10. He told his father and brothers. His father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers come to bow down to you to the earth?"
11. His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
12. His brothers went to tend their father's flock in Shechem.
13. Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers pasturing in Shechem? Go, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”
14. He said to him, “Go now, see to your brothers’ welfare and the flock’s welfare, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15. A certain man found him, and there he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you seeking?"
16. He said, "I'm searching for my brothers. Please tell me where they are pasturing."
17. The man said, "They have gone from here, for I heard them saying, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
18. They saw him from a distance, and before he could reach them, they plotted to kill him.
19. They said to one another, "Look, this master of dreams is coming."
20. Now come, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns, and we will say, "A savage beast has devoured him," and we will see what becomes of his dreams.
21. Reuben heard and saved him from their hands, and said, "Let us not strike his life."
22. Reuben said to them, "Do not pour out blood; hurl him into this pit in the wilderness, and do not raise a hand against him"—so he might rescue him from their hand, to bring him back to his father.
23. It was when Joseph came to his brothers that they stripped Joseph of his robe, the many-colored robe that was on him.
24. They took him and hurled him into the pit. The pit was empty; no water was in it.
25. They sat down to eat bread, raised their eyes, and looked—and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, their camels bearing spices, balm, and myrrh on their way to bring it down to Egypt.
26. Judah said to his brothers, "What gain is it if we kill our brother and cover his blood?"
27. Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not lay our hand on him; for he is our brother, our flesh. His brothers listened.
28. Some Midianite merchants passed by, drew Joseph up from the pit, sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, and brought him to Egypt.
29. Reuben returned to the pit, but Joseph was nowhere in it, and he tore his garments.
30. He came back to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone, and I—where will I go?"
31. They took Joseph's tunic, slaughtered a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
32. They sent the multicolored tunic to their father, brought it to him, and said, "This we have found. Please recognize whether it is your son's tunic or not."
33. He recognized it and said, "My son's tunic! A savage beast has devoured him. Joseph is surely torn apart."
34. Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
35. All his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." His father wept for him.
36. The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh's officer and captain of the guard.

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 36](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/36.md)
[Genesis 38](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/38.md)

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