9 Bible Verses about Bowing Before Joseph

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 bowed down to my sheaf.”

Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, “Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

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 had? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?”

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

Now Joseph was the ruler over the land; he was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present which was in their hand and bowed to the ground before him.

They said, “Your servant our father is well; he is still alive.” They bowed down in homage.

When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.

Then his brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”