Genesis 37:16

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

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”

17“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

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Cross References

Luke 19:10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 37:13-23

12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. 13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I. 14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. 15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying,… Read the whole commentary →

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