Daily Discovery Bible Study

5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more.6 “Listen to this dream I had,” he told them.7 “We were tying up bundles of grain out in the fields when all of a sudden my bundle stood up, and your bundles came over and bowed down to it.”

8 “Do you really think you're going to be our king?” they asked. “Do you honestly believe you're going to rule over us?” They hated him even more because of his dream and how he described it.

9 Then he had another dream and told his brothers about it. “Listen, I had another dream,” he explained. “The sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down before me.”

10 He also told his father as well as his brothers, and his father told him off, saying, “What's this dream that you've had? Are we—I and your mother and brothers—really going to come and bow down to the ground before you?”11 Joseph's brothers became jealous of him, but his father puzzled over the meaning of the dream.

Genesis 37: 5-11