Genesis
Chapter 37: 1-11
Joseph's Dreams
1 Jacob
lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.
2 This is
the account of Jacob.
Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the
flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives,
and he brought their father a bad report about them.
3 Now
Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in
his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him. 4
When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him
and could not speak a kind word to him.
5 Joseph
had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly
my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to
it."
8 His
brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule
us?" And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.
9 Then he
had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. "Listen," he said, "I
had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to
me."
10 When he
told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, "What is
this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to
the ground before you?" 11 His brothers were jealous of
him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
