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So God appeared to Abimelek in a dream one night. He said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken. She is already married.”
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Then God spoke to him in the dream. He said, “Yes, I know you had no idea you were doing anything wrong. So I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
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Jacob Has a Dream at Bethel
Jacob left Beersheba and started out for Harran.
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In a dream he saw a stairway standing on the earth. Its top reached to heaven. The angels of God were going up and coming down on it.
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“Once during the mating season I had a dream. In my dream I looked and saw male goats mating with the flock. The goats had stripes, speckles or spots.
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The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob.’ I answered, ‘Here I am.’
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Then God came to Laban, the Aramean, in a dream at night. He said to him, “Be careful. Do not say anything to Jacob, whether it is good or bad.”
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Joseph Has Two Dreams
Jacob lived in the land of Canaan. It’s the land where his father had stayed.
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Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
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He said to them, “Listen to the dream I had.
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His brothers said to him, “Do you plan to be king over us? Will you really rule over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream. They didn’t like what he had said.
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Then Joseph had another dream. He told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said. “I had another dream. This time the sun and moon and 11 stars were bowing down to me.”
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He told his father as well as his brothers. Then his father rebuked him. He said, “What about this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers really do that? Will we really come and bow down to the ground in front of you?”
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His brothers were jealous of him. But his father kept the dreams in mind.
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“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.
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“Come. Let’s kill him. Let’s throw him into one of these empty wells. Let’s say that a wild animal ate him up. Then we’ll see whether his dreams will come true.”
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Then each of the two men had a dream. The men were the Egyptian king’s baker and wine taster. They were being held in prison. Both of them had dreams the same night. Each of their dreams had its own meaning.
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“We both had dreams,” they answered. “But no one can tell us what they mean.” Then Joseph said to them, “Only God knows what dreams mean. Tell me your dreams.”
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So the chief wine taster told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me.
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“Here’s what your dream means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days.
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The chief baker saw that Joseph had given a positive meaning to the wine taster’s dream. So he said to Joseph, “I had a dream too. There were three baskets of bread on my head.
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“Here’s what your dream means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days.
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But Pharaoh had a pole stuck through the chief baker’s body. Then he had the pole set up. Everything happened just as Joseph had told them when he explained their dreams.
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Pharaoh Has Two Dreams
When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream. In his dream, he was standing by the Nile River.
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He fell asleep again and had a second dream. In that dream, seven heads of grain were growing on one stem. They were healthy and good.
