4. And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
5. Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.
6. And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.
7. I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, end stood, and your sheaves standing about, bowed down before my sheaf.
8. His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.
9. He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.
10. And when he had told this to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?
11. His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.
12. And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their father's docks,