Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan. Gen 17:8Gen 23:4Gen 28:4Gen 36:7Heb 11:9-16 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father. Gen 35:25-261Co 11:181Sa 2:22-24Gen 35:221Co 1:111Co 5:1Gen 10:1Gen 30:4 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors. Gen 37:32Jhn 3:352Sa 13:18Gen 37:23Jhn 13:22-23Ezk 16:16Gen 44:20-30Psa 45:13-14 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him. Gen 27:411Jn 3:121Jn 4:201Jn 2:11Psa 69:41Sa 17:28Gen 37:5Gen 4:5
Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. Gen 28:12Gen 42:9Dan 4:5Jhn 17:14Amo 3:7Gen 37:4Num 12:61Ki 3:5 He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: Gen 44:18Jdg 9:7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.” Gen 42:6Gen 44:14Gen 43:26Gen 42:9Col 1:18Gen 44:19Php 2:10
His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words. 1Sa 10:27Act 7:35Gen 49:261Sa 17:28Act 4:27-28Exo 2:14Gen 37:4Heb 10:29 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.” Act 7:9-14Gen 46:29Dan 8:10Gen 37:7Gen 37:10Gen 41:25Gen 41:32Gen 43:28 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to the earth before you?” Gen 27:29Gen 37:7Isa 60:14Php 2:10-11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind. Act 7:9Luk 2:19Luk 2:51Dan 7:28Act 13:45Ecc 4:4Gal 5:21Gen 26:14-16
His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem. Gen 33:18Gen 34:25-31Gen 37:1 Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.” Eph 6:1-31Sa 17:17-201Sa 3:161Sa 3:4-61Sa 3:8Gen 22:1Gen 27:1Gen 27:18
He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. Gen 35:27Luk 19:42Psa 125:51Ki 2:331Sa 17:17-182Sa 18:32Gen 13:18Gen 23:2 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?” Jdg 4:22Jhn 4:272Ki 6:19Gen 21:14Jhn 1:38Jhn 18:4Jhn 18:7Jhn 20:15
He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.” Luk 19:10Sng 1:7
The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” 2Ki 6:13
Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. Act 23:121Sa 19:1Mrk 14:1Psa 37:12Psa 37:32Jhn 11:53Psa 31:13Luk 20:14-15 They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes. Gen 28:12Gen 37:11Gen 37:5Gen 49:23 Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.” Tit 3:3Pro 27:42Ki 2:24Mat 2:2-16Pro 1:11-121Ki 13:241Sa 26:2Act 4:16-18
Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.” Gen 42:22Gen 35:22Gen 9:5Jos 10:28Mat 10:28 Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. Act 12:1Deu 13:9Exo 24:11Gen 22:12Gen 42:22Mat 27:24 When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him; Gen 37:3Gen 37:31-33Gen 42:21Mat 27:28Psa 22:18 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it. Jer 38:6Psa 130:1-2Zec 9:11Lam 3:52-55Lam 4:20Psa 35:7Psa 40:2Psa 88:6
They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. Gen 37:28Gen 43:11Jer 8:22Gen 16:11-12Jer 46:11Gen 25:1-4Gen 25:16-18Gen 31:23 Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Gen 37:20Gen 4:102Sa 1:16Deu 17:8Ezk 24:7Gen 25:32Jer 41:8Job 16:18 Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him. Gen 42:21Mat 16:261Sa 18:171Ti 1:102Sa 11:14-172Sa 12:9Exo 21:16Exo 21:21 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt. Act 7:9Psa 105:17Gen 25:2Gen 45:4-5Gen 37:25Gen 37:36Jdg 6:1-3Mat 26:15
Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes. Gen 37:34Job 1:20Act 14:14Gen 44:13Jol 2:13Num 14:62Ki 19:1Gen 34:13 He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?” Gen 42:13Gen 42:32Jer 31:15Gen 37:20Gen 42:35-36 They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood. Gen 37:23Gen 37:3Pro 28:13 They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.” Luk 15:30Gen 37:3Gen 44:20-23
He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.” Gen 37:20Gen 44:281Ki 13:242Ki 2:24Jhn 13:7Pro 14:15 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days. Gen 37:292Sa 3:311Ch 21:161Ki 20:311Ki 21:272Ki 19:12Sa 1:11Act 14:14 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol 1 to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him. Gen 42:382Sa 12:17Job 2:11Gen 31:43Gen 35:22-26Gen 42:31Gen 44:29-31Gen 45:28 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard. Gen 37:28Gen 40:42Ki 25:8Gen 25:1-2Gen 39:1-23Isa 56:3Est 1:10