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Genesis - ch 37 v 1 - 20
- And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan wherein his father sojourned.
- And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the dock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of and of Zelpha his father's wives : and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.
- Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.
- And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
- Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.
- And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.
- 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.
- His brethren answered : Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.
- He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.
- And when he had told this to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?
- His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.
- And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their father's docks,
- Israel said to him : Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered:
- I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:
- And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.
- But he answered: I seek my brethren; tell me where they feed the docks.
- And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.
- And when they saw him afar off, be- fore he came nigh them, they thought to kill him.
- And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.
- Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit : and we will say : Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him :
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