18But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.


In Context

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.

18 But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

19 "Here comes that dreamer!" they said to each other.

20 "Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what comes of his dreams."

Genesis 37:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:18And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

37:18And when they saw him afar off, be- fore he came nigh them, they thought to kill him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

37:18And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:18And when they saw him from afar, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to put him to death.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

37:18And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:18And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near to them, they conspired against him to slay him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

37:18And they see him from afar, even before he draweth near unto them, and they conspire against him to put him to death.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:18And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near to them, they conspired against him to slay him.