Torah Chanting: Genesis 37:1-4

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וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב יַעֲקֹ֔ב בְּאֶ֖רֶץ מְגוּרֵ֣י אָבִ֑יו בְּאֶ֖רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן׃

Genesis 37:1

Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan.

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וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב יַעֲקֹ֔ב בְּאֶ֖רֶץ מְגוּרֵ֣י אָבִ֑יו בְּאֶ֖רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן׃

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Trope 1 Katon

Trope 2 Etnachta

Trope 3 Siluk (Sof-pasuk)

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אֵ֣לֶּה ׀ תֹּלְד֣וֹת יַעֲקֹ֗ב יוֹסֵ֞ף בֶּן־שְׁבַֽע־עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ הָיָ֨ה רֹעֶ֤ה אֶת־אֶחָיו֙ בַּצֹּ֔אן וְה֣וּא נַ֗עַר אֶת־בְּנֵ֥י בִלְהָ֛ה וְאֶת־בְּנֵ֥י זִלְפָּ֖ה נְשֵׁ֣י אָבִ֑יו וַיָּבֵ֥א יוֹסֵ֛ף אֶת־דִּבָּתָ֥ם רָעָ֖ה אֶל־אֲבִיהֶֽם׃

Genesis 37:2

This, then, is the line of Jacob: At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended the flocks with his brothers, as a helper to the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. And Joseph brought bad reports of them to their father.

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Trope 1 R'vi-i

Trope 2 Gershayim

Trope 3 Kadma

Trope 4 Katon

Trope 5 R'vi-i

Trope 6 T'vir

Trope 7 Etnachta

Trope 8 T'vir

Trope 9 Siluk (Sof-pasuk)

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וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אָהַ֤ב אֶת־יוֹסֵף֙ מִכׇּל־בָּנָ֔יו כִּֽי־בֶן־זְקֻנִ֥ים ה֖וּא ל֑וֹ וְעָ֥שָׂה ל֖וֹ כְּתֹ֥נֶת פַּסִּֽים׃

Genesis 37:3

Now Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons—he was his “child of old age”;^*he was his “child of old age” NJPS “he was the child of his old age.” The expression ben zequnim is used here as a category label; it seems to denote a special, favored status. Cf. 44.20. and he had made him an ornamented tunic.^*ornamented tunic Or “a coat of many colors”; meaning of Heb. uncertain.

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Trope 1 R'vi-i

Trope 2 Katon

Trope 3 Etnachta

Trope 4 Siluk (Sof-pasuk)

Full Verse Chanted

וַיִּרְא֣וּ אֶחָ֗יו כִּֽי־אֹת֞וֹ אָהַ֤ב אֲבִיהֶם֙ מִכׇּל־אֶחָ֔יו וַֽיִּשְׂנְא֖וּ אֹת֑וֹ וְלֹ֥א יָכְל֖וּ דַּבְּר֥וֹ לְשָׁלֹֽם׃

Genesis 37:4

And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of his brothers, they hated him so that they could not speak a friendly word to him.

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Trope 1 R'vi-i

Trope 2 Gershayim

Trope 3 Katon

Trope 4 Etnachta

Trope 5 Siluk (Sof-pasuk)

Full Verse Chanted

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