Genesis 37:1-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

37 And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan wherein his father sojourned.

² And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.

³ Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.

⁴ And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

⁵ Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.

⁶ And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.

⁷ I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about, bowed down before my sheaf.

⁸ His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.

⁹ He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.

¹⁰ And when he had told this to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?

¹¹ His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.