Chuàngshìjì 37:12

12 Yūesè de gēge men wàng Shìjiàn qù fàng tāmen fùqin de yáng .

Chuàngshìjì 37:12 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 37:12

And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in
Shechem.
] Very probably some considerable time after the telling of the above dreams; it was usual to remove flocks from place to place for the sake of pasturage; and sometimes at a great distance, as Shechem was from Hebron, where Jacob now dwelt, said ^F9 to be about sixty miles; but this is not so much to be marvelled at as the place itself, whither they went, for though Jacob had bought a parcel of a field in this place, ( Genesis 33:19 ) ; which might be a reason for their going thither to feed their father's flocks in his own field; yet it was the place where they had committed a most outrageous action in destroying all, the males there, and therefore might fear the inhabitants of the neighbouring cities would rise upon them and cut them off.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Bunting's Travels, p. 79. Ainsworth in loc.

Chuàngshìjì 37:12 In-Context

10 Yūesè jiāng zhè mèng gàosu tā fùqin hé tā gēge men , tā fùqin jiù zébeì tā shuō , nǐ zuò de zhè shì shénme mèng . nándào wǒ hé nǐ mǔqin , nǐ dìxiōng guǒrán yào lái fǔfú zaì dì , xiàng nǐ xià baì ma ,

11 Tā gēge men dōu jídù tā , tā fùqin què bǎ zhè huà cún zaì xīnli .

12 Yūesè de gēge men wàng Shìjiàn qù fàng tāmen fùqin de yáng .

13 Yǐsèliè duì Yūesè shuō , nǐ gēge men bú shì zaì Shìjiàn fàng yáng ma . nǐ lái , wǒ yào dǎfa nǐ wàng tāmen nàli qù . Yūesè shuō , wǒ zaì zhèlǐ .

14 Yǐsèliè shuō , nǐ qù kàn kān nǐ gēge men píngān bù píngān , qún yáng píngān bù píngān , jiù huí lái bàoxìn gĕi wǒ . yúshì dǎfa tā chū Xībǎilún gǔ , tā jiù wàng Shìjiàn qù le .