Quotes about Brothers
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
- Genesis 33:1
So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
- Genesis 33:16
This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
- Genesis 37:2
Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
- Genesis 37:5
He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
- Genesis 37:6
We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”
- Genesis 37:7
Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
- Genesis 37:9
And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
- Genesis 37:11
Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
- Genesis 37:12
Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
- Genesis 37:13
Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
- Genesis 37:14
“I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”
- Genesis 37:16