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But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”
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Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
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Jacob’s Dream at Bethel
Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.
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He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
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She named him Joseph, and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.”
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Jacob’s Flocks Increase
After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.
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“In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted.
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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 and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
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He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear.
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Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.
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The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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Joseph’s Dreams
Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.
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This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him.
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Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.
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He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
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His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.
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Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
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When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
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Joseph Sold by His Brothers
Now his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,
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and Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.” “Very well,” he replied.
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So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph arrived at Shechem,
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“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan.
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“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other.
