Genesis 37:7
for as we were binding sheaves in the field, my sheaf rose up and remained standing, while your sheaves came round and bowed down to my sheaf.’
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In Context
6This is what he said to them, ‘Hear, if you will, this dream which I have had;
Cross References
Genesis 42:6Now Joseph was the governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. Therefore Joseph’s brothers came and bowed before him with their faces to the earth.
Genesis 43:26When Joseph came into the house, they gave him the present which they had brought and bowed down low before him.
Genesis 44:14When Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house, he was still there; and they threw themselves before him on the ground.
Genesis 50:18his brothers also went and fell down before him and said, ‘See, we are your slaves.’
Colossians 1:18and he is the head of the church, which is his body. The firstborn from the dead, he is to the church the source of its life, that he, in all things, may stand first.
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 →