Genesis 37:15
Good News Translation
and was wandering around in the country when a man saw him and asked him, "What are you looking for?"

New Revised Standard Version
and a man found him wandering in the fields; the man asked him, “What are you seeking?”

Contemporary English Version
and wandering through the fields, when a man asked, "What are you looking for?"

New American Bible
a man came upon him as he was wandering about in the fields. “What are you looking for?” the man asked him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.

he was.

Genesis 21:14 So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

What.

Judges 4:22 And behold, Barac came pursuing after Sisara: and Jahel went out to meet him, and said to him: Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, he saw Sisara lying dead, and the nail fastened in his temples.

2 Kings 6:19 And Eliseus said to them: This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will shew you the man whom you seek. So he led them into Samaria.

John 1:38 And Jesus turning and seeing them following him, saith to them: What seek you? Who said to him: Rabbi (which is to say, being interpreted, Master), where dwellest thou?

John 4:27 And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? Or: Why talkest thou with her?

John 18:4,7 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth and said to them: Whom seek ye? . . .

John 20:15 Jesus saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, thinking that it was the gardener, saith to him: Sir, if thou hast taken him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him: and I will take him away.

Context
Joseph Sold by His Brothers
14I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem: 15And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.16But he answered: I seek my brethren, tell me where they feed the flocks.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:14
I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:

Genesis 37:16
But he answered: I seek my brethren, tell me where they feed the flocks.

Genesis 37:14
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