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Genesis 37:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

They said to one another, “Look, here comes the hero of those dreams!

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In a dream he saw a ladder that reached from earth to heaven, and God's angels were going up and down on it.

Joseph's brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept wondering about the dream.

But before he got there, they saw him coming and made plans to kill him.

Let's kill him and throw him into a pit and say that some wild animal ate him. Then we'll see what happens to those dreams.”

One day, Joseph told his brothers what he had dreamed, and they hated him even more.

Enemies attacked with arrows, refusing to show mercy.