Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.’
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world,
Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms round him, and wept for a long time.
He told his father and brothers, and his father rebuked him. ‘What kind of dream is this that you have had? ’ he said. ‘Am I and your mother and your brothers really going to come and bow down to the ground before you? ’
‘Are you really going to reign over us? ’ his brothers asked him. ‘Are you really going to rule us? ’ So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.