⁵ Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. ⁶ He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed: ⁷ Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, ^(A)my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and ^(B)bowed down to my sheaf.” ⁸ His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

⁹ Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” ¹⁰ But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and ^(C)your mother and your brothers indeed come ^(D)to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” ¹¹ And ^(E)his brothers were jealous of him, ^(F)but his father kept the saying in mind.

²⁴ And they took him and ^(A)threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

²⁸ Then ^(A)Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and ^(B)sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels^[a] of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.

³⁶ Meanwhile ^(A)the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, ^(B)the captain of the guard.