15a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, "What are you looking for?"


In Context

12 Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem,

13 and Israel said to Joseph, "As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them." "Very well," he replied.

14 So he said to him, "Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me." Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph arrived at Shechem,

15 a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, "What are you looking for?"

16 He replied, "I'm looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?"

17 "They have moved on from here," the man answered. "I heard them say, 'Let's go to Dothan.' " So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan.

Genesis 37:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:15And a certain man found him, and, behold, [he was] wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

37:15And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

37:15And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:15And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the country; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

37:15And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:15And a certain man found him, and behold he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:15A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, |What are you looking for?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

37:15And a man findeth him, and lo, he is wandering in the field, and the man asketh him, saying, 'What seekest thou?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:15And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seek you?