Q&A for Genesis 37 | Understand Your Bible

Chapter

Question/Answer 1

Question 1

1. What was the problem in Jacob's relations with his children and what was the result?

Answer 1

v 3 and 4 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, ... His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

Question/Answer 2

Question 2

2. What was Reuben's reaction to the suggestion that they should kill Joseph?

Answer 2

v 21 and 22 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.” Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

Question/Answer 3

Question 3

3. What did Judah suggest doing to Joseph?

Answer 3

v 26 and 27 Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” ...