4. When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his brothers, they hated him so much that they could not say a kind word to him.
5. Once Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers, they hated him even more.
6. He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had.
7. There we were, binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf rose to an upright position, and your sheaves formed a ring around my sheaf and bowed down to it.”
8. His brothers said to him, “Are you really going to make yourself king over us? Will you rule over us?” So they hated him all the more because of his dreams and his reports.
9. Then he had another dream, and told it to his brothers. “Look, I had another dream,” he said; “this time, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
10. When he told it to his father and his brothers, his father reproved him and asked, “What is the meaning of this dream of yours? Can it be that I and your mother and your brothers are to come and bow to the ground before you?”
11. So his brothers were furious at him but his father kept the matter in mind.