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Genesis 37:5
Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.
Genesis 37:5 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 37:5 in other translations
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
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In context
2 These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.
3 Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.
4 And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.
5 Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.
6 And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.
7 We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.
8 And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.
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