Genesis 37:4-16
English Standard Version
5Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.
6He said to them, "Hear this dream that I have dreamed:
7Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf."
8His 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.
9Then 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."
10But 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 your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"
11And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
12Now his brothers went to pasture their father 's flock near Shechem.
13And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."
14So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, "What are you seeking?"
16"I am seeking my brothers," he said. "Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock."
