Quotes about Brothers
“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
- Genesis 37:17
When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.
- Genesis 37:21
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.
- Genesis 37:24
Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
- Genesis 37:26
So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
- Genesis 37:28
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes,
- Genesis 37:29
Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
- Genesis 37:31
About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.
- Genesis 38:1
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
- Genesis 42:1
So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- Genesis 42:3
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
- Genesis 42:4
Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
- Genesis 42:6