¹⁴ Joseph was still in the house^(A) when Judah^(B) and his brothers came in, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.^(C)

¹⁸ His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him.^(A) “We are your slaves,”^(B) they said.

²⁵ They prepared their gifts^(A) for Joseph’s arrival at noon,^(B) because they had heard that they were to eat there.

¹⁶ When Joseph saw Benjamin^(A) with them, he said to the steward of his house,^(B) “Take these men to my house, slaughter an animal and prepare a meal;^(C) they are to eat with me at noon.”

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)