Genesis 37:5-11

Joseph's Prophetic Dreams

Genesis 37:5-11
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Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.
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And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.
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I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf.
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His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.
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He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.
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And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his father rebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?
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His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.
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