⁴ When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him^(A) and could not speak a kind word to him.

⁵ Joseph had a dream,^(B) and when he told it to his brothers,^(C) they hated him all the more.^{(D) 6} He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: ⁷ We were binding sheaves^(E) 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.”^(F)

⁸ His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?”^(G) And they hated him all the more^(H) because of his dream and what he had said.

⁹ Then he had another dream,^(I) and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars^(J) were bowing down to me.”^(K)

¹⁰ When he told his father as well as his brothers,^(L) his father rebuked^(M) 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?”^{(N) 11} His brothers were jealous of him,^(O) but his father kept the matter in mind.^(P)

²¹ “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents^(A) and have them put to death.^(B)

²¹ Therefore this is what the Lord says about the people of Anathoth^(A) who are threatening to kill you,^(B) saying, “Do not prophesy^(C) in the name of the Lord or you will die^(D) by our hands”—

¹⁹ I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;^(A) I did not realize that they had plotted^(B) against me, saying,