Genesis 37:11

Therefore his brothers envied him; but his father kept the matter in mind.

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In The King James Version

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

In Context

10But when he told it to his father and his brothers, his father reproved him and said, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Am I and your mother and your brothers supposed to bow down to the earth before you?”

12When his brothers went to pasture his father’s flocks in Shechem,

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Cross References

Genesis 26:14Now all the wells which Isaac’s father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

Matthew 27:18For he knew that it was out of jealousy that they had given Jesus up to him.

Luke 2:19while Mary treasured in her heart all that they said, and thought about it often.

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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