They said one to another, *Behold, this dreamer comes.
He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams.*
Yosef dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
The archers have sorely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him: