Genesis 37:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.

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  • Gen 44:18 : 18 Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.
  • Judg 9:7 : 7 Now Jotham, on hearing of it, went to the top of Mount Gerizim, and crying out with a loud voice said to them, Give ear to me, you townsmen of Shechem, so that God may give ear to you.

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  • Gen 37:4-5
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    4And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.

    5Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.

  • Gen 37:7-12
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    7We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

    8And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.

    9Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me.

    10And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you?

    11And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.

    12Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

  • Gen 37:16-20
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    16And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock.

    17And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan.

    18But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death;

    19Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.

    20Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.

  • 15And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

  • Gen 40:8-9
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    8Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream?

    9Then the chief wine-servant gave Joseph an account of his dream, and said, In my dream I saw a vine before me;

  • 17Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:

  • Gen 41:11-12
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    11And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense.

    12And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them.

  • Gen 41:24-26
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    24And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.

    25Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

    26The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

  • 9Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.

  • 6And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.

  • 5And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.

  • 4Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.

  • 7And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.

  • 5But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.

  • 11And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.

  • 15And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?

  • 17You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.

  • 7A second time they said in answer, Let the king give his servants an account of his dream, and we will make clear the sense.

  • 16Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;