Genesis 37:5-7

Amplified Bible

⁵Now Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they ^[a]hated him even more. ⁶He said to them, “Please listen to [the details of] this dream which I have dreamed; ⁷we [brothers] were binding sheaves [of grain stalks] in the field, and lo, my sheaf [suddenly] got up and stood upright and remained standing; and behold, your sheaves stood all around my sheaf and bowed down [in respect].”

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Footnotes

Genesis 37:5 In both vv 5 and 8 “hated him even more” is properly translated, but there is an interesting play on words. The literal Hebrew says, “they added to hate”—the Hebrew word for “added” is the same for the word for Joseph—“they ‘Josephed’ their hate for him.”