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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This is the account of Jacob&#8217;s family line.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"><span class="content">Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father&#8217;s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.37.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he said to him, &#8220;Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.&#8221; Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.37.14"><span class="content">When Joseph arrived at Shechem, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.37.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, &#8220;What are you looking for?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.37.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.37.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.37.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.37.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;They have moved on from here,&#8221; the man answered. &#8220;I heard them say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go to Dothan.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.37.17"><span class="content">So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.37.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.37.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.37.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here comes that dreamer!&#8221; they said to each other. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.37.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come now, let&#8217;s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we&#8217;ll see what comes of his dreams.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.37.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.37.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. &#8220;Let&#8217;s not take his life,&#8221; he said. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.37.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don&#8217;t lay a hand on him.&#8221; Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.37.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.37.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe&#8212;the ornate robe he was wearing&#8212; </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.41.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">So Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.41.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph&#8217;s finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.41.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">He had him ride in a chariot as his second-in-command,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:43 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the chariot of his second-in-command</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">in his second chariot</span></span></span><span class="content"> and people shouted before him, &#8220;Make way</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:43 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Bow down</span></span></span><span class="content">!&#8221; Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.41.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.41.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;I am Pharaoh, but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt.&#8221; </span></span></div>
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