for 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 (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.

Now he [a]had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, “Lo, I have [b]had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 He 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 [c]had? Shall I and your mother and (C)your brothers actually come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 37:9 Lit dreamed
  2. Genesis 37:9 Lit dreamed
  3. Genesis 37:10 Lit dreamed

43 He had him ride in [a]his second chariot; and they proclaimed before him, “[b]Bow the knee!” And he set him over all the land of Egypt.

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  1. Genesis 41:43 Lit the second...which was his
  2. Genesis 41:43 Heb Abreck: Attention or Make way

14 “The (A)sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you,
And all those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet;
And they will call you the (B)city of the Lord,
The (C)Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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