Hannah’s Prayer

2 Then Hannah prayed and said:^(A)

² This is the account^(A) of Jacob’s family line.

Joseph,^(B) a young man of seventeen,^(C) was tending the flocks^(D) with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah^(E) and the sons of Zilpah,^(F) his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report^(G) about them.

³ Now Israel^(H) loved Joseph more than any of his other sons,^(I) because he had been born to him in his old age;^(J) and he made an ornate^[a] robe^(K) for him.^{(L) 4} When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him^(M) and could not speak a kind word to him.

⁵ Joseph had a dream,^(N) and when he told it to his brothers,^(O) they hated him all the more.^{(P) 6} He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: ⁷ We were binding sheaves^(Q) of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around 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^(T) because of his dream and what he had said.

⁹ Then he had another dream,^(U) and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars^(V) were bowing down to me.”^(W)

¹⁰ When he told his father as well as his brothers,^(X) his father rebuked^(Y) 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?”^{(Z) 11} His brothers were jealous of him,^(AA) but his father kept the matter in mind.^(AB)

The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah^(A)(B)(C)

1 This is the genealogy^[a] of Jesus the Messiah^[b] the son of David,^(D) the son of Abraham:^(E)

¹⁷ Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah.