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“So you want to be our king, do you?” his brothers derided. And they hated him both for the dream and for his cocky attitude.

Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Listen to my latest dream,” he boasted. “The sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed low before me!” 10 This time he told his father as well as his brothers; but his father rebuked him. “What is this?” he asked. “Shall I indeed, and your mother and brothers come and bow before you?”

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His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?”(A) And they hated him all the more(B) because of his dream and what he had said.

Then he had another dream,(C) and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars(D) were bowing down to me.”(E)

10 When he told his father as well as his brothers,(F) his father rebuked(G) him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”(H)

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