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Genesis 37:10 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to the earth before you?” "
Genesis 37:10
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8 His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”
10 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? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to the earth before you?”
11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
12 His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
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Genesis 37:1
"Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan."
Genesis 37:2
"This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father."
Genesis 37:3
"Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors."
Genesis 37:4
"His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him."
Genesis 37:5
"Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more."
Genesis 37:6
"He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:"
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