4When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.


In Context

1 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

2 This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him.

4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.

6 He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had:

Genesis 37:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:4And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

37:4And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

37:4And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:4And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, and they hated him, and could not greet him with friendliness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

37:4And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:4And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

37:4and his brethren see that their father hath loved him more than any of his brethren, and they hate him, and have not been able to speak to him peaceably.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:4And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.