Devine Scripture

Genesis 37:35

Genesis chapter 37 · verse 35 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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 Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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 into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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 Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

Context

v.34And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

v.35This passage

v.36And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 35:22

    And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

  • Genesis 44:29

    and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

  • Genesis 42:31

    And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:

  • Job 2:11

    Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.

  • Genesis 31:43

    And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne?

  • 2 Samuel 12:17

    And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.