Genesis 37:5-11 ▼

5 Joseph had a dream and when he told his brothers, they hated him even more.

6 He said to them, |Please listen to the dream I had.

7 We were tying grain into bundles out in the field, and suddenly mine stood up. It remained standing while your bundles gathered around my bundle and bowed down to it.|

8 Then his brothers asked him, |Are you going to be our king or rule us?| They hated him even more for his dreams and his words.

9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. |Listen,| he said, |I had another dream: I saw the sun, the moon, and 11 stars bowing down to me.|

10 When he told his father and his brothers, his father criticized him by asking, |What's this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers come and bow down in front of you?|

11 So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept thinking about these things.