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82  |  Genesis 37:3
Jo­seph, a ­young man of sev­en­teen, was tend­ing the ­flocks  i with his broth­ers, the sons
of Bil­hah  j and the sons of Zil­pah,  k his fa­ther’s ­wives, and he ­brought ­their fa­ther a bad
re­port  l ­about ­them.
3 Now Is­rael ­loved Jo­seph more than any of his other sons,  m be­cause he had been born
to him in his old age;  n and he made an or­nate  a robe  o for him. 4 When his broth­ers saw
that ­their fa­ther ­loved him more than any of them, they hated him  p and c ­ ould not ­speak
a kind word to ­him.
5 Jo­seph had a ­dream,  q and when he told it to his broth­ers, they hated him all the more.
6 He said to them, “Lis­ten to this ­dream I had: 7 We were bind­ing ­sheaves of ­grain out in the
field when sud­denly my s ­ heaf rose and ­stood up­right, ­while your ­sheaves gath­ered a
­ round
mine and ­bowed down to it.”  r
8 His broth­ers said to him, “Do you in­tend to ­reign over us? Will you ac­tu­ally rule us?”  s
And they hated him all the more be­cause of his ­dream and what he had ­said.
9 Then he had an­other ­dream, and he told it to his broth­ers. “Lis­ten,” he said, “I had an­
other d
­ ream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven s ­ tars were bow­ing down to me.”
10 When he told his fa­ther as well as his broth­ers,  t his fa­ther re­buked him and said,
“What is this d
­ ream you had? Will your mother and I and your broth­ers ac­tu­ally come and
bow down to the g
­ round be­fore you?”  u 11 His broth­ers were jeal­ous of him,  v but his fa­ther
kept the mat­ter in ­mind.  w
37:2 i  Ps  78:71
j  Ge  35:25 k  Ge  35:26
l  1Sa  2:24
37:3 m  Ge  25:28
n  Ge  44:20
o  2Sa  13:18‑19
37:4 p  Ge  27:41;
49:22-23; Ac 7:9
37:5 q  Ge 20:3; 28:12
37:7 r  Ge  42:6, ​9;
43:26, ​28; 44:14; 50:18
37:8 s  Ge  49:26
37:10 t  ver  5 u  ver  7;
Ge 27:29
37:11 v  Ac  7:9
w  Lk  2:19, ​51
37:14 x  Ge 13:18; 35:27
37:17 y  2