Joseph Dreams of Sun, Moon, and Stars
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- Joseph Dreams of Sun, Moon and Star
Today's Bible study marks the first in a Bible study series on Joseph (son of Jacob, grandson of Isaac, and great-grand son of Abraham). Joseph is the eleventh son of a family consisting of 13 children (12 sons and 1 daughter). In terms of the family hierarchy, Joseph is low on the pecking order. However, Joseph happens to be the favourite son of Jacob, largely because he happens to be the first son of his favourite wife. Not only that, but Joseph is a young man of peculiar vision, insight and wisdom.
In today's reading, Joseph tells his family of some interesting dreams he's been having lately. In one dream, he is binding sheaves with his brothers in the field when, all of a sudden, their sheaves bow down to his. In another dream, he sees the sun, the moon and eleven stars, all bowing down to him. In both dreams, Joseph sees himself ascending to greatness in his family.
Naturally, this angers his brothers and makes Joseph the victim of a cruel plot.
Genesis 37:1-11
1 Jacob settled in the land where his father had lived as an alien, the land of Canaan. 2 This is the story of the family of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he had made him a long robe with sleeves. 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
5 Once Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. 6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream that I dreamed. 7 There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright; then your sheaves gathered around it, and bowed down to my sheaf.” 8 His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Are you indeed to have dominion over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words. 9 He had another dream, and told it to his brothers, saying, “Look, I have had another dream: the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him, “What kind of dream is this that you have had? Shall we indeed come, I and your mother and your brothers, and bow to the ground before you?” 11 So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.