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Joseph’s Dreams

Genesis 37:5

In 11 translations

BSB
Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
KJV
¶ And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
WEB
Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
ASV
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
LSV
And Joseph dreams a dream, and declares to his brothers, and they add still more to hate him.
YLT
And Joseph dreameth a dream, and declareth to his brethren, and they add still more to hate him.
DBY
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told [it] to his brethren, and they hated him yet the more.
DRC
Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.
GNV
And Ioseph dreamed a dreame, and told his brethren, who hated him so much the more.
JPS
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren; and they hated him yet the more.
LXXE
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and reported it to his brethren.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיַּחֲלֹ֤ם יוֹסֵף֙ חֲל֔וֹם וַיַּגֵּ֖ד לְאֶחָ֑יו וַיּוֹסִ֥פוּ ע֖וֹד שְׂנֹ֥א אֹתֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Ἐνυπνιασθεὶς δὲ Ἰωσὴφ ἐνύπνιον, ἀπήγγειλεν αὐτὸ τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς αὐτοῦ.

Who and where

👤 Joseph (son of Jacob)◆ Joseph sold to Egypt

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 28:12And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
  • Genesis 42:9Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
  • Daniel 4:5I had a dream, and it frightened me; while in my bed, the images and visions in my mind alarmed me.
  • John 17:14I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
  • Genesis 37:4When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
  • Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
  • Numbers 12:6He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
  • Joel 2:28And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
  • 1 Kings 3:5One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
  • Genesis 40:5both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
  • Genesis 41:1After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
  • Psalms 25:14The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
  • Genesis 49:23The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.
  • Daniel 2:1In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.
  • Genesis 37:8“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.
  • Judges 7:13–14And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent…

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