5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more. 7 "We were tying up bundles of grain out in the fields when all of a sudden my bundle stood up, and your bundles came over and bowed down to it."
9 Then he had another dream and told his brothers about it. "Listen, I had another dream," he explained. "The sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down before me."
24 grabbed him and threw him into a pit. (The pit was empty—it didn’t have any water in it.)
28 So when the Ishmaelites (who were traders from Midian)37:28. The text sometimes refers to them as Ishmaelites and sometimes as Midianites but are clearly one and the same group. Also verse 36. came by, they pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him to them for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites took him to Egypt.
31 They slaughtered a goat and dipped Joseph’s robe in the blood.
33 His father recognized it right away and said, "This is my son’s robe! Some wild animal must have eaten him. Poor Joseph has been ripped to pieces, no doubt about it!"