Genesis 37:5–11

Joseph’s Dreams

⁵Then Joseph ^1ahad a dream, and he told it to his brothers; so they hated him even more.

⁶And he said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have ¹had:

⁷Indeed, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf rose up and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves gathered around and ^abowed down to my sheaf.”

⁸Then his brothers said to him, “^aAre you really going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

⁹Then he ¹had still another dream and recounted it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have ²had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

¹⁰And he recounted it to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have ¹had? Shall I and your mother and ^ayour brothers really come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?”

^11aAnd his brothers were jealous of him, but his father ^bkept the saying in mind.