Bible verse

Genesis 37:16

“I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”

Genesis 37:16 · BSB

Genesis 37:16 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 37.

12 Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.

13 Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.

14 Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,

15 a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”

16 “I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”

17 “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

18 Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.

19 “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.

20 “Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”

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Genesis 37:16 in other translations

KJV

And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed [their flocks].

ASV

And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock.

ERV

And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock.

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