Geneva Bible Notes: Genesis 37

Genesis 37:2 (!) Joseph accuseth his brethren.

Genesis 37:2 (b) He complained of the euil wordes and injuries, which thei spake & did against him.

Genesis 37:2 (/) Or, slander.

Genesis 37:2 (a) That is, the storie of suche things as came to him and his familie, as {chap. 5,1}.

Genesis 37:3 (/) Or, pieces.

Genesis 37:5 (c) God reueiled to him by a dreame, what shulde come to passe.

Genesis 37:5 (!) He dreameth and is hated of his brethren.

Genesis 37:8 (d) The more that God sheweth him self fauourable to his, the more doeth the malice of the wicked rage against them.

Genesis 37:10 (e) Not despising the vision, but seking to appease his brethren.

Genesis 37:11 (/) Or, kepe diligently.

Genesis 37:11 (f) He knewe that God was the autor of the dreame, but he vnderstode not the meaning.

Genesis 37:18 (g) The holy Gost couereth not mens fautes, as do vaine writers which make vice vertue.

Genesis 37:19 (/) Or, master of dreames.

Genesis 37:21 (/) Ebr. let vs not smite his life.

Genesis 37:23 (h) Their hypocrisie appeareth in this that thei feared man more then God: & thoght it was not murther if thei shed not his blood: or els had an excuse to couer their faute.

Genesis 37:28 (!) They sel him to the Ishmaelites.

Genesis 37:28 (i) Moses writing according to the opinion of them, which toke the Midianites and Ishmaelites to be bothe one, doeth here confounde their names: as also appeareth {vers 36 and chap 39,1}. Or els he was first offred to the Midianites, but solde to the Ishmeelites.

Genesis 37:32 (k) To wit, the messengers which were sent.

Genesis 37:34 (!) Jaakob bewaileth Joseph.

Genesis 37:35 (/) Or, I wil mourne for him so long as I liue.

Genesis 37:36 (l) Which worde doeth not alwaie signifie him that is gelded, but also him that is some high dignitie.

Genesis 37:36 (/) Or, captaine of the garde.