Genesis 37:1-11 - Joseph's Dreams

¹ And Jacob lived in the land of the travels of his father, in the land of Canaan. ² These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, came tending the flock with his brothers. And he was a youth with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them.

³ And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a tunic reaching to the soles of his feet. ⁴ And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

⁵ And Joseph dreamed a dream and told it to his brothers. And they hated him still more. ⁶ And he said to them, I pray you, Hear this dream which I have dreamed. ⁷ For behold! We were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your sheaves stood around and bowed down to my sheaf.

⁸ And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have the rule over us? And they hated him still more for his dreams and for his words.

⁹ And he dreamed still another dream, and told it to his brothers. And he said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream. And behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed down to me.

¹⁰ And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I, and your mother, and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the earth before you? ¹¹ And his brothers were jealous of him. But his father observed the saying.