Genesis 37:16 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 37:16

“I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”

BSB

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ASV

And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock.

KJV

And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אַחַ֖י	'a.Chai	brothers my	H251 →
אָנֹכִ֣י	'a.no.Khi	I	H595 →
מְבַקֵּ֑שׁ	me.va.Kesh	[am] seeking	H1245 →
הַגִּֽידָה־	ha.gi.dah-	tell !	H5046 →
נָּ֣א	na'	please	H4994 →
לִ֔י	Li	to <the> me
אֵיפֹ֖ה	'ei.Foh	where?	H375 →
הֵ֥ם	hem	[are] they	H1992 →
רֹעִֽים׃	ro.'Im	pasturing	H7462 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

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
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
leads to
- Ezekiel 34:16
  I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
- Matthew 1:21
  She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- 1 Timothy 1:13–16
  I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
- Luke 5:31–32
  Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
- Luke 15:4–7
  “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds…
Through
Song of Solomon 1:7
Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
leads to
- Song of Solomon 3:1–4
  On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
- Isaiah 13:20
  She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
- Psalms 23:1–2
  The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.