Genesis 37:2

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Summary

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

The generations

Wives

Genesis 30:4

Genesis 35:22

Evil report

1 Corinthians 11:18

General references

Genesis 35:25

Bible References

The generations

These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;

These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

Wives

So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had 12 sons:

Evil report

Now Eli was very old. He heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers, by members of Chloe’s household, that there is rivalry among you.

It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles—a man is living with his father’s wife.

For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

General references

The sons of Rachel’s slave Bilhah
were Dan and Naphtali.