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Genesis 37:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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.” "

Genesis 37:20

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18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

19 They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

20 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.”

21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”

22 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.

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Genesis 37:1

"Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan."

Genesis 37:2

"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."

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"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."

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"His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him."

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"Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more."

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