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Genesis 37:25 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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. "
Genesis 37:25
Verse in Context
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23 When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;
24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
25 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.
26 Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
27 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.
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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."
Genesis 37:3
"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."
Genesis 37:4
"His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him."
Genesis 37:5
"Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more."
Genesis 37:6
"He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:"
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