Genesis 37:4

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Genesis 37:4

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

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KJV

King James Version

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

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WEB

World English Bible

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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ASV

American Standard Version

And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Genesis 37

² This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.

⁴ When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

⁵ Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

⁶ He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

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