Genesis 37:1-13

Revised Geneva Translation

37 Now, Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

² These are the generations of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah (his father’s wives). And Joseph brought an evil report of them to his father.

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he begat him in his old age; and he made him a coat of many colors.

⁴ So, when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, then they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

⁵ And Joseph dreamed a dream and told his brothers, who hated him so much the more.

⁶ For he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed!

⁷ “Behold now, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field. And lo, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your sheaves surrounded it, and did reverence to my sheaf.”

⁸ Then his brothers said to him, “What!? Shall you reign over us, and rule us? Or, shall you have complete dominion over us?” And they hated him so much the more, for his dreams and for his words.

⁹ Again, he dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have had one more dream. And behold, the Sun and the Moon and eleven stars did reverence to me.”

¹⁰ Then, he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this, your dream which you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come and fall on the ground before you?”

¹¹ And his brothers envied him. But his father noted the saying.

¹² Then, his brothers went to keep their father’s sheep in Shechem.

¹³ And Israel said to Joseph, “Do not your brothers pasture their flock in Shechem? Come and I will send you to them.”