Genesis 37:6-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

¹² And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their father's flocks,

¹³ Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered:

¹⁴ I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:

¹⁵ And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.

¹⁶ But he answered: I seek my brethren; tell me where they feed the flocks.

¹⁷ And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.

¹⁸ And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him.

¹⁹ And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.

²⁰ Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:

²¹ And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, and said:

²² Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father.