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His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.

He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.

10 And when he had told this to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?

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

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

10 When he told his father as well as his brothers,(F) his father rebuked(G) 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?”(H)

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