⁶ Then the female servants and their children^(A) approached and bowed down.^(B)

⁷ Next, Leah and her children^(A) came and bowed down.^(B) Last of all came Joseph and Rachel,^(C) and they too bowed down.

³ Abram fell facedown,^(A) and God said to him,

⁷ 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)

⁸ 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.

⁹ 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)

⁶ Now Joseph was the governor of the land,^(A) the person who sold grain to all its people.^(B) So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.^(C)

²⁶ When Joseph came home,^(A) they presented to him the gifts^(B) they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.^(C)

¹⁴ Joseph was still in the house^(A) when Judah^(B) and his brothers came in, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.^(C)

¹² Then Joseph removed them from Israel’s knees^(A) and bowed down with his face to the ground.^(B)

⁴¹ After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground.^(A) Then they kissed each other and wept together—but David wept the most.