Versete biblice populare din Genesis 37

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Once Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers, they hated him even more.

Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long ornamented tunic.

When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his brothers, they hated him so much that they could not say a kind word to him.

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

So his brothers were furious at him but his father kept the matter in mind.

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had. There we were, binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf rose to an upright position, and your sheaves formed a ring around my sheaf and bowed down to it.”

Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here; we could say that a wild beast devoured him. We will see then what comes of his dreams.”

Midianite traders passed by, and they pulled Joseph up out of the cistern. They sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

They said to one another: “Here comes that dreamer!

They saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

Then Reuben said, “Do not shed blood! Throw him into this cistern in the wilderness; but do not lay a hand on him.” His purpose was to save him from their hands and restore him to his father.