Genesis 37:12 BSB — MannaFest

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7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ	vai.ye.le.Khu	and they went	H1980 →
אֶחָ֑יו	'e.Chav	brothers his	H251 →
לִרְע֛וֹת	lir.'ot	to pasture	H7462 →
אֶׄתׄ־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
צֹ֥אן	tzon	[the] flock of	H6629 →
אֲבִיהֶ֖ם	'a.vi.Hem	father their	H1 →
בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃	bish.Khem	at Shechem	H7927 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 37:1
Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
leads to
- Genesis 17:8
  And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
- Genesis 23:4
  “I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
- Hebrews 11:9–16
  By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
Through
Genesis 33:18
After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
leads to
- Joshua 24:1
  Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.
- Acts 7:16
  Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.
- Judges 9:1
  Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,
- John 4:5
  So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
- Genesis 25:20
  and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Genesis 37:1Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.Genesis 33:18After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.Genesis 34:25–31Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.Genesis 46:34you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”Joshua 17:7Now the border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath near Shechem, then southward to include the inhabitants of En-tappuah.

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