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 generations of heaven and earth when they were created, in the day [that] Yahweh God made earth and heaven--

This is the record of the generations of Adam. When God created Adam, he made him in the likeness of God.

These [are] the generations of Noah. Noah [was] a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

These [are] the generations of the sons of Noah--Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Children were born to them after the flood.

Wives

Then she gave him Bilhah, her female servant, as a wife, and Jacob went in to her

And while Israel was living in that land Reuben went and had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine. And Israel heard [about it].

Evil report

Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel and that they [were] having sexual relations with the women who [were] serving [at] the entrance of [the] tent of assembly.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.

For it has been made clear to me concerning you, my brothers, by {Chloe's people}, that there are quarrels among you.

It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.

For in the first place, [when you] come together as a church, I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

General references

The sons of Bilhah, the female servant of Rachel: Dan and Naphtali.