There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”(A)

“Are you really going to reign over us?” his brothers asked him. “Are you really going to rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.

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

10 He told his father and brothers, and his father rebuked him. “What kind of dream is this that you have had?” he said. “Am I and your mother and your brothers really going to come and bow down to the ground before you?”

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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)

10 When he told his father as well as his brothers,(H) his father rebuked(I) 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?”(J)

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43 He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, and servants called out before him, “Make way!” [a] So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 41:43 Or “Kneel!”

43 He had him ride in a chariot(A) as his second-in-command,[a](B) and people shouted before him, “Make way[b]!”(C) Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 41:43 Or in the chariot of his second-in-command; or in his second chariot
  2. Genesis 41:43 Or Bow down

14 The sons of your oppressors
will come and bow down to you;(A)
all who reviled you
will fall facedown at your feet.(B)
They will call you the City of the Lord,
Zion of the Holy One of Israel.(C)

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14 The children of your oppressors(A) will come bowing before you;
    all who despise you will bow down(B) at your feet
and will call you the City(C) of the Lord,
    Zion(D) of the Holy One(E) of Israel.

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