Joseph Sold by His Brothers

¹² Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near ^(A)Shechem.

Joseph's Dreams

37 Jacob lived in ^(A)the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.

²⁵ On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, ^(A)Simeon and Levi, ^(B)Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males. ²⁶ They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem's house and went away. ²⁷ The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. ²⁸ They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. ²⁹ All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and plundered.

³⁰ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, ^(C)“You have brought trouble on me ^(D)by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, ^(E)the Canaanites and the Perizzites. ^(F)My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.” ³¹ But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”

¹⁸ And Jacob came safely^[a] to the city of ^(A)Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.