May peoples serve you and nations bow in homage to you. Be master over your relatives; may your mother’s sons bow in homage to you. Those who curse you will be cursed, and those who bless you will be blessed.
Genesis 37:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised There we were, binding sheaves of corn in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered round it and bowed down to my sheaf.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
May peoples serve you and nations bow in homage to you. Be master over your relatives; may your mother’s sons bow in homage to you. Those who curse you will be cursed, and those who bless you will be blessed.
Joseph was in charge of the country; he sold grain to all its people. His brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said to them, ‘You are spies. You have come to see the weakness of the land.’
When Joseph came home, they brought him the gift they had carried into the house, and they bowed to the ground before him.
They answered, ‘Your servant our father is well. He is still alive.’ And they knelt low and paid homage to him.
When Judah and his brothers reached Joseph’s house, he was still there. They fell to the ground before him.
But Judah approached him and said, ‘My lord, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.
His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, ‘We are your slaves! ’
so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow – in heaven and on earth and under the earth –
He is also the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.