Genesis 37:4
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
When Joseph’s 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
2 This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
4 When Joseph’s 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 Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
Genesis 37:4 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
- KJV King James Version
- And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
- WEB World English Bible
- His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, and they hated him, and could not greet him with friendliness.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.