Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Genesis 37

^{2 !} Joseph accuseth his brethren.

^{2 b} He complained of the euil wordes and injuries, which thei spake & did against him.

^{2 /} Or, slander.

^{2 a} That is, the storie of suche things as came to him and his familie, as {chap. 5,1}.

^{3 /} Or, pieces.

^{5 c} God reueiled to him by a dreame, what shulde come to passe.

^{5 !} He dreameth and is hated of his brethren.

^{8 d} The more that God sheweth him self fauourable to his, the more doeth the malice of the wicked rage against them.

^{10 e} Not despising the vision, but seking to appease his brethren.

^{11 /} Or, kepe diligently.

^{11 f} He knewe that God was the autor of the dreame, but he vnderstode not the meaning.

^{18 g} The holy Gost couereth not mens fautes, as do vaine writers which make vice vertue.

^{19 /} Or, master of dreames.

^{21 /} Ebr. let vs not smite his life.

^{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.

^{28 !} They sel him to the Ishmaelites.

^{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.

^{32 k} To wit, the messengers which were sent.

^{34 !} Jaakob bewaileth Joseph.

^{35 /} Or, I wil mourne for him so long as I liue.

^{36 l} Which worde doeth not alwaie signifie him that is gelded, but also him that is some high dignitie.

^{36 /} Or, captaine of the garde.