Genesis 37:7

“We were tying up bundles of grain out in the fields when all of a sudden my bundle stood up, and your bundles came over and bowed down to it.”

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6“Listen to this dream I had,” he told them.

8“Do you really think you're going to be our king?” they asked. “Do you honestly believe you're going to rule over us?” They hated him even more because of his dream and how he described it.

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Cross References

Genesis 42:6Joseph was the governor of the country and he sold grain to all the people there. So Joseph's brothers went to him, and bowed low before him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 43:26When Joseph arrived at the house they gave him the gifts they had brought for him, and bowed low to the ground before him.

Genesis 44:14Joseph was still at home when Judah and his brothers arrived, and they fell to the ground before him.

Genesis 50:18Then his brothers themselves came and fell down before Joseph and said, “We are your slaves!”

Colossians 1:18He is also the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, having the highest position of those raised from the dead, so that he is supreme in everything.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 37:6-12

5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. 6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: 7 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. 8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his… Read the whole commentary →

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