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Genesis 37:10

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8 “Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.

9 Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

11 And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.

12 Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.

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BSB
He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
KJV
And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
WEB
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?”
ASV
And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
DARBY
And he told [it] to his father and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamt? Shall we indeed come, I and thy mother and thy brethren, to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
BLB
And he told [it] to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, “What [is] this dream that you have dreamed? Will we surely come—I and your mother and your brothers—to bow down before you to the earth?”
ÅB
Og da han fortalte det til sin far og til sine brødre, skjente hans far på ham og sa til ham: Hva er dette for en drøm du har hatt? Skal da jeg og din mor og dine brødre komme og bøye oss til jorden for deg?
OTB
Da han fortalte sin far og sine brødre, irettesatte hans far ham og sa: "Hva er denne drømmen du har hatt? Skal din mor og jeg og dine brødre virkelig komme og bøye oss til jorden for deg?"
B1930
Og da han fortalte det til sin far og til sine brødre, skjente hans far på ham og sa til ham: Hvad er dette for en drøm du har hatt? Skal da jeg og din mor og dine brødre komme og bøie oss til jorden for dig?

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Cross references

  • Genesis 27:29

    May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

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  • Isaiah 60:14

    The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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  • Philippians 2:10–11

    that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

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  • Genesis 37:7

    We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

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