Genesis 37:15
13 Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
14 Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
16 “I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”
17 “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
- KJV
- And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
- WEB
- A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
- ASV
- And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
- DARBY
- And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the country; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
- BLB
- And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, saying, “What [are] you seeking?”
- ÅB
- Mens han nå vanket om på marken, møtte han en mann, og mannen spurte ham: Hva leter du etter?
- OTB
- En mann fant ham vandrende på markene og spurte ham: "Hva leter du etter?"
- B1930
- Mens han nu vanket om på marken, møtte han en mann, og mannen spurte ham: Hvad leter du efter?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Judges 4:22
When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.
Read in contextJohn 4:27
Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”
Read in contextGenesis 21:14
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
Read in contextJohn 20:15
“Woman, why are you weeping?” Jesus asked. “Whom are you seeking?” Thinking He was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried Him off, tell me where you have put Him, and I will get Him.”
Read in contextJohn 18:4
Jesus, knowing all that was coming upon Him, stepped forward and asked them, “Whom are you seeking?”
Read in contextJohn 18:7
So He asked them again, “Whom are you seeking?” “Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered.
Read in contextJohn 1:38
Jesus turned and saw them following. “What do you want?” He asked. They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are You staying?”
Read in context2 Kings 6:19
And Elisha told them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are seeking.” And he led them to Samaria.
Read in context