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Joseph’s Dream

37 So Jacob (Israel) lived in the land [a]where his father [Isaac] had been a stranger (sojourner, resident alien), in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers [Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher]; the boy was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s [[b]secondary] wives; and Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 37:1 Lit of his father’s sojournings.
  2. Genesis 37:2 I.e. concubines (see note 22:24).

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