7. We were binding sheaves in the field. All of a sudden my sheaf rose up and stood upright, and your sheaves stood around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”
8. His brothers said to him, “Will you really reign over us, or will you really have dominion over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words.
9. Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “I have dreamed another dream. The sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing to me.”
10. But when he told it to his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers really come to bow down ourselves to you to the ground?”
11. So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
12. Now his brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
13. Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.”He answered, “Here I am.”
14. Israel said to him, “Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15. A certain man found him wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
16. And he said, “I am looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are feeding their flocks.”