“Here comes the dreamer!” they said.
As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.
But while his brothers were jealous of Joseph, his father wondered what the dreams meant.
When Joseph’s brothers saw him coming, they recognized him in the distance. As he approached, they made plans to kill him.
“Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father, ‘A wild animal has eaten him.’ Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!”
One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever.
Archers attacked him savagely; they shot at him and harassed him.
