“And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.”
Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem. The movement of the brothers to Shechem — the site of the Dinah episode in Genesis 34 — is the setup for the chain of events that will follow. The application: the geography of the Joseph story is the geography of the family's previous conflicts. Shechem is not a neutral location.
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