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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "genesis-woh",
    "chapter": 37
  },
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    "n": 37,
    "bookSlug": "genesis-woh",
    "bookCode": "GEN-WOH",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "Genesis 37 — Yosef's dreams, the ketonet passim, and the sale into Mitsrayim",
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Surface 'dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings' is straight ASV-baseline with WoH transliteration; no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:2","status":"approve","citations":["BDB p. 410 (toledot); HALOT s.v. na'ar; BDB p. 654; HALOT s.v. dibbah; BDB p. 179; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 254-255"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed the three cruxes (toledot header, ve-hu na'ar, dibbatam ra'ah); each surface keeps ASV-baseline and the youth/attendant, slander/about-them, and narrative-vs-genealogy ambiguities are documented (not resolved) in overlay entries I verified independently. Defensible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:3","status":"flag-for-human","citations":["2 Sam 13:18-19 (only HB parallel); LXX chiton poikilos; b. Shabbat 10b; Speiser AB Genesis 1964 p. 290 (kitu pisannu); NJPS; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 255"],"reasoning":"ketonet passim: the surface retains 'coat of many colours' while the entry itself concedes this is the philologically WEAKEST of the three readings (the 2 Sam 13:18 status-garment parallel favours the long-sleeved/ornamented tunic). The philology is sound and the entry is honest, but whether to keep the culturally-entrenched ASV surface over the better-attested status-reading is a project-stance call (accuracy-above-lens vs surfacing the stronger reading) that requires human sign-off, not a citation."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:4","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'could not speak peaceably to him' (dabbero le-shalom) is clean ASV-baseline; no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'dreamed a dream... hated him yet the more' is straight ASV-baseline; no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'Hear, I pray you, this dream' is clean ASV-baseline; no divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:7","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chwh (Hishtaphel); BDB p. 1005; Emerton OTS 20 (1977) 41-55 (ysthwy stem); Coats CBQMS 4 (1976)"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed va-tishtachaveynah (Hishtaphel of chwh). 'Made obeisance' is a defensible ASV-baseline rendering of the prostration/homage verb; the consistency-anchor across vv 7/9/10 is sound and documented in the overlay entry."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed the doubled interrogatives (ha-malokh timlokh / im-mashol timshol); 'Shalt thou indeed reign... have dominion' captures the infinitive-absolute emphasis in ASV idiom. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:9","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chwh (Hishtaphel); Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 256"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed mishtachavim li; second-dream obeisance rendered consistently with v 7. Surface is clean ASV-baseline; the celestial-family note in commentary stays within mainstream ANE dream-idiom, no cosmological leakage."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:10","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chwh; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 256"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed le-hishtachavot lekha artzah; 'bow down... to the earth' is ASV-baseline. The 'thy mother' crux (Rachel dead, Gen 35:19) is noted in commentary without forcing a reading. Defensible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind' (shamar et ha-davar) is clean ASV-baseline. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:12","status":"approve","citations":["Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible 3rd ed. 2012 sec.6.B.5; Ginsburg, Introduction 1897 pp. 318-334; Sofrim 6:3"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: the puncta extraordinaria over the nota accusativa (aleph-tav) are present in the MT exactly as cited. Surface 'their father's flock' is unaffected; the appliesTo extension of the central puncta entry to GEN-WOH-37:12 correctly formalizes the scribal-apparatus link. Verified the central entry's appliesTo now contains GEN-WOH-37:12."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:13","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'Here am I' (hineni) governed by the existing central hineni entry (verified present). Surface clean ASV-baseline. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:14","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'see whether it is well with thy brethren' (re'eh et shelom achekha), 'vale of Hevron', 'came to Shechem' (Shechemah, locative collapsed). Clean ASV-baseline with WoH transliteration. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:15","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'a certain man found him... wandering in the field... What seekest thou?' Clean ASV-baseline. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'I am seeking my brethren... where they are feeding the flock'. Clean ASV-baseline. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:17","status":"approve","citations":["GKC sec.90; Joun-Muraoka sec.93c (directional he); Free, BA 19 (1956) 43-48 (Tell Dothan)"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed both toponym forms (Dotaynah locative, Dotan bare). The locative-collapse and 't'-transliteration ('Dotan' not ASV 'Dothan') are consistent with the v 14 Shechemah->Shechem treatment and the WoH proper-name convention. Defensible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: va-yitnakelu oto la-hamito, 'they conspired against him to slay him'. Clean ASV-baseline. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:19","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ba'al; BDB p. 127; Alter, Five Books of Moses 2004 p. 209"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed ba'al ha-chalomot ha-lazeh. 'This dreamer' is a defensible ASV-baseline flattening of the 'lord/master of dreams' sarcasm, which is documented (not lost) in the overlay entry. No divergence on surface."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:20","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chayah; HALOT s.v. bor; BDB pp. 312, 92; Stager, BASOR 260 (1985); NJPS"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed chayah ra'ah and ha-borot. 'Evil beast' (ASV) and 'pit' (ASV) both retained; the 'wild/savage beast' and 'dry rock-cut cistern' senses are documented in the verified entries. Surface defensible; ambiguity preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:21","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'Let us not take his life' (lo nakkenu nafesh). Clean ASV-baseline. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:22","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. bor; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 258"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'Shed no blood; cast him into this pit... in the wilderness'. 'Pit' for bor consistent with v 20; clean ASV-baseline. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:23","status":"approve","citations":["2 Sam 13:18-19; LXX chiton poikilos; Speiser AB Genesis 1964 p. 290"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed the doubled designation (ketonto / ketonet ha-passim). Surface keeps 'coat of many colours' consistent with v 3; same crux flagged at v 3 governs (see that verdict). Surface itself is ASV-consistent."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:24","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. bor; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 258"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed ve-ha-bor req ein bo mayim and the locative ha-borah. 'The pit was empty, there was no water in it' is clean ASV-baseline; the v 24 dry-cistern gloss is the textual basis for the cistern note. Defensible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:25","status":"approve","citations":["Wellhausen Prolegomena 1885; Friedman, The Bible with Sources Revealed 2003; Judg 8:24; Cassuto, Commentary on Genesis; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 pp. 258-259; HALOT s.vv. nekhot/tzeri/lot; Zohary, Plants of the Bible 1982"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed orchat Yishme'elim and the cargo nekhot/tzeri/lot. All ethnonyms preserved verbatim; both documentary (J/E) and harmonizing (Judg 8:24 equation) readings documented even-handedly as named positions, neither endorsed on the surface. The aromatics keep ASV gloss with modern botanical IDs in apparatus. Source-honest and even-handed."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:26","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'What profit is it' (mah betza) ... 'conceal his blood'. Clean ASV-baseline. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:27","status":"approve","citations":["Judg 8:24; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 pp. 258-259"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'sell him to the Yishme'elim... our brother, our flesh'. Ethnonym preserved verbatim, consistent with v 25 doublet handling. Clean ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:28","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. kesef; Lev 27:5; Exod 21:32; Code of Hammurabi sec.116; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 259; Kitchen, On the Reliability of the OT 2003 pp. 344-345"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed anashim Midyanim socharim and be-esrim kasef. The ambiguous subject of va-yimshekhu va-ya'alu and the three-ethnonym tension are preserved (MT as it stands); 'twenty pieces of silver' keeps ASV with the implied shekel and slave-price comparanda documented. The overlay entry correctly confirms the existing central money-unit entries do not govern this sale-price. Defensible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:29","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. bor"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: Re'uven returns to the bor, finds it empty, rends his clothes. 'Pit' consistent with vv 20/22/24; clean ASV-baseline. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:30","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'The child is not; and I, where shall I go?' (ha-yeled einennu va-ani anah ani va). Clean ASV-baseline rendering the Hebrew's terse anguish. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:31","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: 'killed a he-goat' (se'ir izzim), 'dipped the coat in the blood'. Clean ASV-baseline. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:32","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. nakar (Hiphil); BDB p. 647; Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative 1981 ch.1; Gen 27:23; Gen 38:25-26"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed haker-na (Hiphil of nakar). 'Know now' (ASV) flattens the recognise/identify force, but the recognition-loop and the Gen 27 / Gen 38 measure-for-measure motif are documented in the verified overlay entry. Surface defensible; ketonet passim crux carried from v 3."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:33","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chayah; GKC sec.113 (infinitive absolute); Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 260"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed chayah ra'ah akhalat-hu and tarof toraf (infinitive-absolute + finite intensive). 'An evil beast hath devoured him... without doubt torn in pieces' keeps ASV; the doubled-infinitive intensive is surfaced via commentary cross-ref to the central harbah-arbeh pattern (verified present) rather than extending an rbh-anchored entry to a trp verb -- a defensible, internally-consistent no-entry decision."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:34","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed va-yasem saq be-motnav. 'Sackcloth upon his loins' is the uncontested ASV/KJV/NJPS rendering; no glossary entry needed. The mourning-weight note stays within mainstream usage. No divergence."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:35","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. she'ol; BDB p. 982; TDOT XIV:239-248; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 261; von Rad Genesis OTL 1972 p. 354; Johnston, Shades of Sheol 2002"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed ki ered el-beni avel She'olah (directional he). Transliterated 'She'ol' matches the dominant modern critical tradition (NJPS/NRSV/Alter) over KJV/ASV 'grave', preserving the underworld register. Crucially, the entry confines itself to the mainstream ANE realm-of-the-dead picture and explicitly reserves any descent-cosmology synthesis to the wiki -- lens-discipline correctly applied. Approve."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-37:36","status":"flag-for-human","citations":["HALOT s.v. saris; CAD S/2 s.v. sa resi; BDB p. 710; HALOT s.v. tabbach; 2 Kgs 25:8; Dan 2:14 (tabbachayya); Tadmor, 'Was the Biblical saris a Eunuch?' 1995"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed Medanim (MT, vs LXX/SamP Midianitai -- MT correctly preserved), seris Par'oh, sar ha-tabbachim. The saris->'officer' (court-official sense, dissolving the Gen 39 marriage tension) and sar ha-tabbachim->'captain of the guard' (Nevuzaradan rav-tabbachim parallel) renderings are philologically sound and I approve them. The flag is narrow: 'Pharaoh' is rendered against the brief's stated 'Par'oh' proper-name direction. The Editor kept established chs-12-20 convention -- defensible -- but a brief-vs-convention conflict on a proper-name transliteration is a project-stance call requiring human sign-off, not a citation."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"sheol-underworld-realm-of-the-dead","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. she'ol; BDB p. 982; TDOT XIV:239-248; Johnston, Shades of Sheol 2002; von Rad Genesis OTL 1972 p. 354"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed independently: the transliteration over 'grave' is a defensible modern-critical choice, not the only one. Cross-corpus reach (Job/Psalms/Isaiah/prophets) justifies central housing. Rationale fences the descent-motif as wiki-reserved -- no leakage."},{"glossary_id":"ketonet-passim-ornamented-tunic-crux","status":"approve","citations":["2 Sam 13:18-19; LXX chiton poikilos; Speiser AB Genesis 1964 p. 290; b. Shabbat 10b; McCarter II Samuel AB 1984 p. 325"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: all three readings are lexically supportable and the entry honestly labels the retained ASV surface as the weakest. Central placement on the cross-corpus 2 Sam 13:18 parallel (the only other HB occurrence) and the Dan 5:5 pas reach is sound. The surface-retention decision itself I escalate at v 3, but the entry's scholarship and classification are correct."},{"glossary_id":"saris-court-official-eunuch-ambiguity","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. saris; CAD S/2 s.v. sa resi; BDB p. 710; Tadmor 1995; Oppenheim JANES 5 (1973) 325-334"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: both court-official and eunuch senses are lexically established; the Akkadian sa resi etymology is settled (CAD), and the choice between senses at this verse is context-driven (Gen 39 marriage). Cross-corpus reach justifies central. Accurate."},{"glossary_id":"sar-ha-tabbachim-captain-of-the-guard","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. tabbach; BDB p. 371; 2 Kgs 25:8-20; Jer 39-52; Dan 2:14 (tabbachayya)"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: literal 'slaughterers/cooks' is direct but the office named is interpretive; the three office-readings are all defensible and the Nevuzaradan rav-tabbachim parallel supports the retained ASV. Cross-corpus reach justifies central. Accurate."},{"glossary_id":"bor-pit-cistern-dry-water-shaft","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. bor; BDB p. 92; Stager BASOR 260 (1985) 1-35; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 258"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: 'pit' and 'cistern' are both defensible; the cistern-specificity is established by v 24's gloss in context, not forced by the word alone. Cross-corpus reach (Gen 40-41 dungeon-bor; literal + poetic clusters) justifies central. Accurate."},{"glossary_id":"puncta-extraordinaria-v9-elav","status":"approve","citations":["Tov, Textual Criticism 3rd ed. 2012 sec.6.B.5; Ginsburg, Introduction 1897 pp. 318-334; Sofrim 6:3"],"reasoning":"appliesTo extension to GEN-WOH-37:12 verified present and correct: the v 12 dotted nota accusativa is the same puncta-extraordinaria phenomenon already governed (one of the canonical fifteen). claim_type 'direct' remains appropriate -- the dots are documentary in the MT. Extension, not duplication. Accurate."},{"glossary_id":"toledot-yaaqov-narrative-cycle-header","status":"approve","citations":["BDB p. 410; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 254; Alter, Five Books of Moses 2004 p. 206"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: the narrative-vs-genealogy distinction and the 'generations' vs 'tale/story' choice is interpretive. Deliberately NOT extending the central GEN-2:4 toledot entry (whose 'tale of' wohChoice contradicts the ch-25/36 'generations' surface) is the correct architectural call; overlay housing preserves central-entry integrity."},{"glossary_id":"ishmaelite-midianite-medanite-documentary-doublet","status":"approve","citations":["Wellhausen Prolegomena 1885; Friedman, The Bible with Sources Revealed 2003; Judg 8:24; Cassuto, Commentary on Genesis; Blenkinsopp, The Pentateuch 1992 pp. 19-20"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: surface preservation of all three ethnonyms is direct, but the entry's substance is the doublet interpretation, which presents documentary (J/E) AND harmonizing (Judg 8:24) readings as named opposing positions without adjudicating -- even-handed, reportorial, not partisan. The single-entry-vs-sibling decision is a sound architectural judgment (interwoven strands in one chapter). No leakage."},{"glossary_id":"ben-zequnim-son-of-old-age","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. zaqunim; BDB p. 279; Targum Onqelos Gen 37:3; Grossfeld, Targum Onqelos to Genesis 1988"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: the plain idiom is direct but the retention over the Targumic 'wise son' reading is an interpretive decision between attested readings. Overlay housing appropriate for a near-singular loaded use. Accurate."},{"glossary_id":"dibbatam-raah-evil-report-slander","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. dibbah; BDB p. 179; Num 13:32; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 255"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: 'evil report' is a direct rendering, but the documented dual ambiguity (whose-evil; true-or-false) is genuinely contested. ASV surface correctly preserves the ambiguity. Accurate."},{"glossary_id":"naar-lad-youth-or-attendant","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. na'ar; BDB p. 654; Stahli, Knabe-Jungling-Knecht 1978; Macdonald JNES 35 (1976) 147-170"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: the youth-vs-attendant reading turns on the genuinely open et-syntax; both are well-attested. Overlay correctly scopes to the Gen 37:2 clause rather than governing the very common na'ar corpus-wide. Accurate."},{"glossary_id":"hishtachavah-obeisance-yosef-dreams","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chwh (Hishtaphel); Emerton OTS 20 (1977) 41-55; Coats CBQMS 4 (1976)"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: the rendering is a register-choice (obeisance/bow down/prostrate) for cross-cycle consistency. The overlay-then-promote decision is correct -- promoting now would create a central entry with single-chapter appliesTo for one of the HB's commonest verbs. Strong promotion candidate flag is apt."},{"glossary_id":"baal-ha-chalomot-dream-master-epithet","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ba'al; BDB p. 127; Alter, Five Books of Moses 2004 p. 209"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: 'this dreamer' is a defensible idiomatic flattening; the ba'al-sarcasm is documented. Chapter-singular hapax-phrase correctly overlay-housed. Accurate."},{"glossary_id":"chayah-raah-evil-or-wild-beast","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chayah; BDB p. 312; NJPS; NRSV; Lev 26:6; Ezek 5:17"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: 'evil beast' is the literal ASV but the natural sense is 'wild/savage' (ra'ah of an animal = dangerous, not morally wicked) -- an interpretive correction documented in commentary. Overlay-housed with Lev/Ezek promotion-node noted. Accurate. (Minor: a garbled clause in the rationale -- 'a near parallel at Gen 37's only-here pairing' -- is cosmetic, not substantive.)"},{"glossary_id":"nekhot-tzeri-lot-caravan-spices","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. nekhot/tzeri/lot; BDB pp. 644,863,538; Jer 8:22; Zohary, Plants of the Bible 1982"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: ASV glosses are traditional approximations and the modern botanical IDs (esp. lot=ladanum not myrrh) are interpretive identifications between attested readings. Overlay-housed with the Gen 43:11 doublet and tzeri Jeremiah-node noted. Accurate."},{"glossary_id":"haker-na-nakar-recognition-motif","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. nakar (Hiphil); BDB p. 647; Alter, Art of Biblical Narrative 1981 ch.1; Goldin JBL 96 (1977) 27-44"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: 'know now' is the ASV surface; the nakar recognition-force and the Gen 27/Gen 38 measure-for-measure motif are a literary observation, not synthesis. Overlay-housed with the Gen 38 sibling correctly flagged for ch-38 processing. Accurate."},{"glossary_id":"twenty-kesef-slave-price-yosef-sale","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. kesef; Lev 27:5; Exod 21:32; Code of Hammurabi sec.116; Sarna JPS Genesis 1989 p. 259; Kitchen 2003 pp. 344-345"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: 'twenty pieces of silver' is the direct ASV but the implied shekel-denomination and slave-price comparanda are interpretive-historical documentation. The entry correctly confirms the existing central money-unit entries (kesitah, Gen 23 kesef formulae, beqa-mishqal) do not govern this price. Accurate."},{"glossary_id":"dotan-toponym-locative-form","status":"approve","citations":["BDB p. 199; GKC sec.90; Joun-Muraoka sec.93c; Free, BA 19 (1956) 43-48"],"reasoning":"claim_type 'inferred' confirmed: the locative-collapse (Dotaynah->Dotan) and 't'-transliteration (not ASV 'Dothan') are convention-applications consistent with the v 14 Shechemah treatment. Overlay-housed correctly. Accurate."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:1",
        "text": "And Ya'aqov dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Kena'an."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:2",
        "text": "These are the generations of Ya'aqov. Yosef, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Yosef brought their evil report to their father."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:3",
        "text": "Now Yisra'el loved Yosef more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:4",
        "text": "And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:5",
        "text": "And Yosef dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:6",
        "text": "And he said to them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:7",
        "text": "for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:8",
        "text": "And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:9",
        "text": "And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream; and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:10",
        "text": "And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:11",
        "text": "And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:12",
        "text": "And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:13",
        "text": "And Yisra'el said to Yosef, Are not thy brethren feeding the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee to them. And he said to him, Here am I."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:14",
        "text": "And he said to him, Go now, see whether it is well with thy brethren, and well with the flock; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hevron, and he came to Shechem."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:15",
        "text": "And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:16",
        "text": "And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:17",
        "text": "And the man said, They are departed from here; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dotan. And Yosef went after his brethren, and found them in Dotan."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:18",
        "text": "And they saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to slay him."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:19",
        "text": "And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:20",
        "text": "Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:21",
        "text": "And Re'uven heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:22",
        "text": "And Re'uven said to them, Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him: that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:23",
        "text": "And it came to pass, when Yosef was come to his brethren, that they stripped Yosef of his coat, the coat of many colours that was on him;"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:24",
        "text": "and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:25",
        "text": "And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Yishme'elim was coming from Gil'ad, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Mitsrayim."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:26",
        "text": "And Yehudah said to his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:27",
        "text": "Come, and let us sell him to the Yishme'elim, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened to him."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:28",
        "text": "And there passed by Midyanim, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Yosef out of the pit, and sold Yosef to the Yishme'elim for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Yosef into Mitsrayim."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:29",
        "text": "And Re'uven returned to the pit; and, behold, Yosef was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:30",
        "text": "And he returned to his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go?"
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:31",
        "text": "And they took Yosef's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;"
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:32",
        "text": "and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found: know now whether it is thy son's coat or not."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:33",
        "text": "And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Yosef is without doubt torn in pieces."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:34",
        "text": "And Ya'aqov rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:35",
        "text": "And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to She'ol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-37:36",
        "text": "And the Medanim sold him into Mitsrayim to Potifar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard."
      }
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