Genesis 37:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and stood upright; and behold, your sheaves gathered round it, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ We [brothers] were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright, and behold, your sheaves stood round about my sheaf and bowed down!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

Common English Bible

⁷ When we were binding stalks of grain in the field, my stalk got up and stood upright, while your stalks gathered around it and bowed down to my stalk.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ I thought we were binding sheaves in the field. And my sheaf seemed to rise up and stand, and your sheaves, standing in a circle, reverenced my sheaf."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, end stood, and your sheaves standing about, bowed down before my sheaf.

Genesis 37:7 Cross References

Genesis 27:29

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be every one who curses you, and blessed be every one who blesses you!”

Genesis 37:6

He said to them, “Hear this dream which I have dreamed:

Genesis 42:6

Now Joseph was governor over the land; he it was who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 42:9

And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed of them; and he said to them, “You are spies, you have come to see the weakness of the land.”

Genesis 43:26

When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present which they had with them, and bowed down to him to the ground.

Genesis 43:28

They said, “Your servant our father is well, he is still alive.” And they bowed their heads and made obeisance.

Genesis 44:14

When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there; and they fell before him to the ground.

Genesis 44:18

Then Judah went up to him and said, “O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant; for you are like Pharaoh himself.

Genesis 44:19

My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’

Genesis 50:18

His brothers also came and fell down before him, and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

Philippians 2:10

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

Colossians 1:18

He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent.