Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 37

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Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made an ornate robe for him.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

He dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Hey! I dreamed another dream. Picture the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowing down to me.”

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

He said to them, “Please y’all, listen to the dream which I have dreamed: There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Suddenly, my sheaf arose and stood upright, and y’all’s sheaves came around and bowed down to my sheaf.”

Come now y’all. Let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say, ‘A vicious animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

They said to one another, “Here comes the dreamer!

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Reuben said to them, “Y’all must not shed any blood. Y’all throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.