Genesis 37:4–11

⁴His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they ^ahated him and could not speak to him ¹on friendly terms.

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

⁶He said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have ¹had;

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

⁸Then his brothers said to him, “^aAre you actually 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.

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

¹⁰He related 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 actually come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?”

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