Genesis 37:1-11 - Joseph's Dreams

¹ So Jacob dwelt in the land of the sojournings of his father, - in the land of Canaan. ² These, are the generations of Jacob - Joseph, when seventeen years old, was shepherding with his brethren among the flocks, and, he, being a youth, was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah wives of his father, - so then Joseph brought in the talk about them - something bad, unto their father.

³ Now, Israel, loved Joseph more than any of his sons, because he was to him, the son of his old age, and he had made him, a long tunic. ⁴ So his brethren saw that their father loved him, more than any of his brethren, and they hated him, and could not bid him prosper,

⁵ And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brethren, and they went on yet more to hate him. ⁶ And he said unto them, Hear ye I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: ⁷ Lo! then, we, were binding sheaves in the midst of the field, when lo my sheaf rose up, yea and took its stand, - and lo! round about came your sheaves, and bowed themselves down to my sheaf.

⁸ And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou, reign, over us, shalt thou, have dominion over us? So they went on yet more to hate him, because of his dreams and because of his words.

⁹ Then dreamed he, yet another, dream, and related it to his brethren, and said: - Lo! I have dreamed a dream, yet again, Lo! then, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars, were bowing themselves down to me.

¹⁰ So he related it unto his father, and unto his brethren, - and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamed? Shall we, indeed come in, I, and thy mother and thy brethren, to bow our-selves down to thee to the earth? ¹¹ Then were his brethren jealous of him, but his father, marked the word.