36:42. Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar, 36:43. Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram: these are the dukes of Edom dwelling in the land of their government; the same is Esau, the father of the Edomites. Genesis Chapter 37 Joseph’s dreams: he is sold by his brethren, and carried into Egypt. 37:1. And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father sojourned. 37:2. And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father’s wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime. 37:3. Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours. 37:4. And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him. 37:5. Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more. A dream.... These dreams of Joseph were prophetical, and sent from God; as were also those which he interpreted, Gen. 40. and 41.; otherwise generally speaking, the observing of dreams is condemned in the Scripture, as superstitious and sinful. See Deut. 18.10; Eccli. 34.2,3. 37:6. And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed. 37:7. I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf. 37:8. His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred. 37:9. He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me. 37:10. And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his father rebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth? Worship.... This word is not used here to signify divine worship, but an inferior veneration, expressed by the bowing of the body, and that, according to the manner of the eastern nations, down to the ground. 37:11. His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself. 37:12. And when his brethren abode in Sechem, feeding their father’s flocks, 37:13. Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered: 37:14. I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem: 37:15. And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought. 37:16. But he answered: I seek my brethren, tell me where they feed the flocks.