Genesis 37:4–11

⁴And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

⁵Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.

⁶And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.

⁷I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf.

⁸His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.

⁹He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.

¹⁰And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his father rebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?

¹¹His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.