for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf stood up and also remained standing; and behold, your sheaves gathered around and (A)bowed down to my sheaf.” Then his brothers said to him, “(B)Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

Then he [a]had yet another dream, and informed his brothers of it, and said, “Behold, I have [b]had yet another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 He also told it to his father as well as to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have [c]had? Am I and your mother and (C)your brothers actually going to come to bow down to the ground before you?”

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  1. Genesis 37:9 Lit dreamed
  2. Genesis 37:9 Lit dreamed
  3. Genesis 37:10 Lit dreamed

We were binding sheaves(A) of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”(B)

His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?”(C) And they hated him all the more(D) because of his dream and what he had said.

Then he had another dream,(E) and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars(F) were bowing down to me.”(G)

10 When he told his father as well as his brothers,(H) his father rebuked(I) him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”(J)

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43 And he had him ride in [a]his second chariot; and they proclaimed ahead of him, “[b]Bow the knee!” And he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

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  1. Genesis 41:43 Lit the second...which was his
  2. Genesis 41:43 Or Make way

43 He had him ride in a chariot(A) as his second-in-command,[a](B) and people shouted before him, “Make way[b]!”(C) Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.(D)

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  1. Genesis 41:43 Or in the chariot of his second-in-command; or in his second chariot
  2. Genesis 41:43 Or Bow down

14 The (A)sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you,
And all those who despised you will bow down at the soles of your feet;
And they will call you the (B)city of the Lord,
The (C)Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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14 The children of your oppressors(A) will come bowing before you;
    all who despise you will bow down(B) at your feet
and will call you the City(C) of the Lord,
    Zion(D) of the Holy One(E) of Israel.

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