THE TORAH
GENESIS
BEREISHIT
The book of Bereishit (also known as Genesis) is the first book of the Torah. It begins with the creation of the world by G-d in six days. After creating the earth, G-d brings forth Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The first humans are quickly banished from the garden after breaking G-d’s commandment and eating from the Tree of Knowledge. The lineage of humanity is established as the book chronicles the descendants of Adam and Eve. The narrative follows the lives of well-known figures such as Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. The book explores themes of human nature, morality, and faith, as well as the relationship between G-d and humanity. The book ends with the descendants of Abraham settling in Egypt, setting the stage for the following book in the Torah, Exodus.
Chapter 37
Are Dreams Premonitions to What is Bound to Happen? Not All the Time as Genesis Chapter 37 Relates The Matter of Dreams
Jewish sages do not give clear answer to such question.
Nonetheless, had Joseph kept his dreams on his own, or only share it with his father Jacob, his brothers would not have hated him to the extreme.
Regardless, prophecy is to be fulfilled. G-d said it, it must be done.
“The Chronicles of Jacob and His Offspring”
“Joseph’s Dreams”
“The Hatred of His Brothers”
“Joseph is Sold”
These are the chronicles of Jacob: Joseph, at the age of seventeen years, was a shepherd with his brothers by the flock, … and Joseph would bring evil reports about them to their father.
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons since he was a child of his old age, and he made him a fine woolen tunic.
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Joseph dreamt a dream which he told to his brothers, and they hated him even more.
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His brothers said to him, “Would you then reign over us? Would you then dominate us?” And they hated him even more – because of his dreams and because of his talk.
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He dreamt another dream, and related it to his brothers. And he said, “Look, I dreamt another dream: Behold! the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
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So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
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And he said to him, “Go now, look into the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring me back word. “So he sent him from the depth of Hebron, and he arrived at Schechem.
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And they said to one another, “Look! That dreamer is coming!
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Reuben heard, and he rescued him from their hand: he said, “We will not strike him mortally!”
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Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites – but let our hand not be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” his brothers agreed.
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They took Joseph’s tunic, slaughtered a goatling, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
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He recognized it and he said, “My son’s tunic! A savage beast devoured him! Joseph has surely been torn to bits!”
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Now the Medianites has sold him to Egypt, to Potiphar, a courtier of Pharaoh, the Chamberlain of the Butchers.
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1 Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
2 These are the generations of Jacob: when Joseph was seventeen years old, being a shepherd, he was with his brothers with the flocks, and he was a lad, [and was] with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought evil tales about them to their father.
3 And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was a son of his old age; and he made him a fine woolen coat.
4 And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, so they hated him, and they could not speak with him peacefully.
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream and told his brothers, and they continued to hate him.
6 And he said to them, “Listen now to this dream, which I have dreamed:
7 Behold, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright, and behold, your sheaves encircled [it] and prostrated themselves to my sheaf.”
8 So his brothers said to him, “Will you reign over us, or will you govern us?” And they continued further to hate him on account of his dreams and on account of his words.
9 And he again dreamed another dream, and he related it to his brothers, and he said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream, and behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were prostrating themselves to me.”
10 And he told [it] to his father and to his brothers, and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will we come I, your mother, and your brothers to prostrate ourselves to you to the ground?”
11 So his brothers envied him, but his father awaited the matter.
12 And his brothers went to pasture their father’s flocks in Shechem.
13 And Israel said to Joseph, “Are your brothers not pasturing in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”
14 So he said to him, “Go now and see to your brothers’ welfare and the welfare of the flocks, and bring me back word.” So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15 Then a man found him, and behold, he was straying in the field, and the man asked him, saying, “What are you looking for?”
16 And he said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me now, where are they pasturing?”
17 And the man said, “They have traveled away from here, for I overheard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers, and he found them in Dothan.
18 And they saw him from afar, and when he had not yet drawn near to them, they plotted against him to put him to death.
19 So they said one to the other, “Behold, that dreamer is coming.
20 So now, let us kill him, and we will cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘A wild beast devoured him,’ and we will see what will become of his dreams.”
21 But Reuben heard, and he saved him from their hand[s], and he said, “Let us not deal him a deadly blow.”
22 And Reuben said to them, “Do not shed blood! Cast him into this pit, which is in the desert, but do not lay a hand upon him,” in order to save him from their hand[s], to return him to his father.
23 Now it came to pass when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his shirt, of the fine woolen coat which was upon him.
24 And they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty there was no water in it.
25 And they sat down to eat a meal, and they lifted their eyes and saw, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, and their camels were carrying spices, balm, and lotus, going to take [it] down to Egypt.
26 And Judah said to his brothers, “What is the gain if we slay our brother and cover up his blood?
27 Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, but our hand shall not be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh.” And his brothers hearkened.
28 Then Midianite men, merchants, passed by, and they pulled and lifted Joseph from the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver [pieces], and they brought Joseph to Egypt.
29 And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he rent his garments.
30 And he returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! And I where will I go?”
31 And they took Joseph’s coat, and they slaughtered a kid, and they dipped the coat in the blood.
32 And they sent the fine woolen coat, and they brought [it] to their father, and they said, “We have found this; now recognize whether it is your son’s coat or not.”
33 He recognized it, and he said, “[It is] my son’s coat; a wild beast has devoured him; Joseph has surely been torn up.”
34 And Jacob rent his garments, and he put sackcloth on his loins, and he mourned for his son many days.
35 And all his sons and all his daughters arose to console him, but he refused to be consoled, for he said, “Because I will descend on account of my son as a mourner to the grave”; and his father wept for him.
36 And the Midianites sold him to Egypt, to Potiphar, Pharaoh’s chamberlain, chief of the slaughterers.
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