Genesis 37:3
Genesis chapter 37 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.
Context
v.2These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, 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 Joseph brought the evil report of them unto their father.
v.3This passage
v.4And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- John 13:22
The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
- Genesis 37:32
and they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found: know now whether it is thy son’s coat or not.
- John 3:35
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
- Genesis 37:23
And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
- Psalms 45:13
The king’s daughter within the palace is all glorious: Her clothing is inwrought with gold.
- Genesis 44:20
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loveth him.