²⁶ When Joseph came home,^(A) they presented to him the gifts^(B) they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.^(C)

⁶ Now Joseph was the governor of the land,^(A) the person who sold grain to all its people.^(B) So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.^(C)

¹¹ It is written:

¹⁹ “Here comes that dreamer!^(A)” they said to each other. ²⁰ “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns^(B) and say that a ferocious animal^(C) devoured him.^(D) Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”^(E)

⁷ We were binding sheaves^(A) 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.”^(B)

⁸ His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?”^(C) And they hated him all the more^(D) because of his dream and what he had said.

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

¹⁰ When he told his father as well as his brothers,^(H) his father rebuked^(I) 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?”^(J)

²⁸ They replied, “Your servant our father^(A) is still alive and well.” And they bowed down,^(B) prostrating themselves before him.^(C)