7 We were all in the field tying up sheaves of wheat, when my sheaf got up and stood up straight. Yours formed a circle round mine and bowed down to it.”
8 “Do you think you are going to be a king and rule over us?” his brothers asked. So they hated him even more because of his dreams and because of what he said about them.
9 Then Joseph had another dream and said to his brothers, “I had another dream, in which I saw the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowing down to me.”
10 He also told the dream to his father, and his father scolded him: “What kind of a dream is that? Do you think that your mother, your brothers, and I are going to come and bow down to you?”
11 Joseph's brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept thinking about the whole matter.
12 One day when Joseph's brothers had gone to Shechem to take care of their father's flock,
13 Jacob said to Joseph, “I want you to go to Shechem, where your brothers are taking care of the flock.”Joseph answered, “I am ready.”