He said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have [a]had; for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf stood up and also remained standing; and behold, your sheaves gathered around and (A)bowed down to my sheaf.” Then his brothers said to him, “(B)Are 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.

Then he [b]had yet another dream, and informed his brothers of it, and said, “Behold, I have [c]had yet another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 37:6 Lit dreamed
  2. Genesis 37:9 Lit dreamed
  3. Genesis 37:9 Lit dreamed

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: We were binding sheaves(A) 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.”(B)

His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?”(C) And they hated him all the more(D) because of his dream and what he had said.

Then he had another dream,(E) and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars(F) were bowing down to me.”(G)

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