{
  "1": "Jacob continued to live in the region of Canaan where his father {Isaac} had lived for a while {as a foreigner}. ",
  "2": "Here is {more of} the record about Jacob and his family: {One day} {his} seventeen-year-old son Joseph was taking care of the {family’s} flocks {of sheep and goats}. Joseph was helping his brothers {who were} the sons of his father’s {servant} wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he told their father about the bad things they were doing.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "3": "Now Israel, {that is, Jacob,} loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he was born to him when he was old. So he made a {special} robe for Joseph that had many colors. ",
  "4": "When Joseph’s brothers realized that their father loved Joseph more than the rest of them, they hated him so much that they would not talk to him in a friendly manner.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "5": "{One night} Joseph had a dream, and he told his brothers about it. That made them hate him even more {than before}. ",
  "6": "{This is what} he told them, “Please listen to this dream that I had:\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "7": "{In it} I saw us {working} out in a field {cutting and} tying bundles {of grain stalks}. Then suddenly the bundle that I had made stood up straight. Then I saw that the bundles you had made stood around {my bundle} and bowed down to my bundle {to show respect}.” ",
  "8": "His brothers responded to him, “Do you really expect to be our king? You will never rule over us!” So they hated him even more {intensely} {than they did before} because of what he had said {to them} about his dreams.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "9": "Then Joseph had another dream that he {also} told to his brothers. He said, “Listen, I {just} had another dream, and {in it} I saw that the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowed down {to the ground} before me {to show respect}.” ",
  "10": "Later Joseph told {the same dream} to {both} his father and his brothers, but his father scolded him by saying, “That {is} a strange dream that you had! Do you really expect your mother and me and your brothers to bow down before you?” ",
  "11": "So Joseph’s brothers were jealous of him, but his father continued to think about what it all could mean.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\s1 Joseph’s Brothers Sell Him as a Slave and He Is Taken to {the Country of} Egypt\n\\sr 37:12-36\n\\p",
  "12": "Sometime after that, Joseph’s brothers took their father’s flock{s} {of sheep and goats} to graze {in the fields} near {the city of} Shechem. ",
  "13": "Then {one day} Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are tending {our flocks} near {the city of} Shechem. Get ready so that I can send you to them.” Joseph responded, “I’m ready {to go}.” ",
  "14": "Then Israel told him, “Please go and check on how your brothers and the flock{s} are doing. Then report back to me {what you find out}.” So Israel sent him {on his way} from {their home in} the valley near {the city of} Hebron, and Joseph traveled to {the city of} Shechem.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "15": "{When he arrived there,} a man saw him searching around in the {nearby} fields and asked him, “What are you looking for?” ",
  "16": "He replied, “I am looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are tending {their flocks}?” ",
  "17": "The man answered, “They were here and then left, but I overheard them say that they were going to {the town of} Dothan.”\n\\p\nSo Joseph followed his brothers and caught up with them near {the town of} Dothan.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "18": "But they saw him while he was still some distance away, and before he reached them, they made plans to kill him. ",
  "19": "They said to each other {about him}, “Look, here comes that expert dreamer! ",
  "20": "Come on, let’s kill him and throw his body into one of the pits {here}. Then we can tell {people} that a vicious animal ate him up, and we will watch if his dreams come true!”\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "21": "But Reuben heard {their plan}, so he {tried to} rescue Joseph from them by urging them, “We should not kill him.” ",
  "22": "Then he continued, “You must not take his life. {Instead} put him into this pit {here} in the desert, but you must not harm him.” Reuben was planning to rescue Joseph from them and take him back {home} to their father.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "23": "When Joseph reached his brothers, they {took hold of him and} ripped off the colorful robe that he was wearing. ",
  "24": "Then they grabbed him and put him into the pit. The pit {was} empty and {completely} dry inside.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "25": "Then {some of} Joseph’s brothers sat down to eat a meal, and {while they were eating,} they looked around and noticed {that} a {large} group of Ishmaelite {traders} {who were} traveling from {the region of} Gilead {was coming toward them}. Their camels were loaded with {expensive} spices, healing salve and incense {that} they were taking down to {the country of} Egypt {to sell there}. ",
  "26": "So Judah urged to his brothers, “We will not gain anything by killing our brother and trying to hide it!\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "27": "{Instead,} come on, let’s sell him to those Ishmaelite {traders} {over there} so that we will not be guilty of harming him. After all, he {is} a member of our family, our own brother.” Judah’s brothers agreed {with him}. ",
  "28": "So when the Midianite {(that is, Ishmaelite)} traders came by {them}, {some of} Joseph’s brothers pulled Joseph up out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty {pieces of} silver. Then the Ishmaelites took him to {the country of} Egypt.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "29": "Later Reuben came back to the pit, and he was shocked to see that Joseph was not there! So he tore his clothes {to show distress}. ",
  "30": "Then he went to his brothers and exclaimed {to them}, “Joseph is gone! Now I do not know what to do!”\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "31": "So Joseph’s brothers killed a young goat and dipped Joseph’s robe in the {goat’s} blood.\n\n\\p",
  "32": "Then they had someone take the colorful robe back to their father and say {to him} {for them}, “We found this {robe}. Please look at it {to see} whether or not it is your son’s.” ",
  "33": "Jacob recognized the robe and exclaimed, “{This is} my son {Joseph}’s robe! Clearly a fierce animal has torn him to bits and eaten him up!”\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "34": "Then Jacob tore his clothes {in grief}, put on mourning clothes, and for many days he mourned that his son had died. ",
  "35": "All Jacob’s sons and daughters came {to him} {and tried} to console him, but he did not let them comfort him. Instead he said {to them}, “{No,} I will continue to mourn {for my son} until I {die and} go down to be with him in the afterworld.” So Joseph’s father continued to mourn for him.\n\n\\p",
  "36": "Meanwhile, in {the country of} Egypt, the Midianite {traders} sold Joseph to Potiphar, {who was} an officer under Pharaoh {the king of Egypt}; {he was} the captain over the {palace} guards.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "front": "\\s1 Joseph’s Dreams Anger His Brothers\n\\sr 37:1–11\n\\p"
}
