Joseph Has Two Dreams

Joseph, a young man of seventeen,
was tending the flocks with his brothers,
the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives,
and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons,
because he had been born to him in his old age;
and he made a richly ornamented robe for him.
When his brothers saw
that their father loved him more than any of them,
they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

Joseph had a dream,
and when he told it to his brothers,
they  hated him all the more.
He said to them,
"Listen to this dream I had:
We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field
when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright,
while your sheaves bowed down to it."

His brothers said to him,
"Do you intend to reign over us?
Will you actually rule us?"
And they hated him all the more
because of his dram and what he had said.

Then he had another dream,
and he told it to his brothers.
"Listen," he said,
"I had another dream, and this time
the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."

When he told his father as well as his brothers,
his father rebuked 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?"
His brothers were jealous of him,
but his father kept the matter in mind.

(Genesis 37:2-11)