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[b] When Joseph was seventeen years old, he shared with his brothers two dreams he had: in the first dream, Joseph and his brothers gathered bundles of grain, of which those his brothers gathered, bowed to his own. In the second dream, the sun (father), the moon (mother), and eleven stars (brothers) bowed to Joseph himself.
All four dreams come from the period around the Nativity of Jesus and his early life, between the onset of Mary's pregnancy and the family's return from the Flight to Egypt. They are often distinguished by numbers as "Joseph's first dream" and so on. Especially in art history, the first may be referred to as the Annunciation to Joseph.
Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him, for he made himself strange to them and spoke roughly with them. [29] Joseph remembered his dreams, and accused them of being spies. [30] But they protested that they were not spies, but upright men come to buy food, ten sons of a man who had twelve sons, lost one, and kept one ...
Joseph: King of Dreams is a 2000 American direct-to-video animated biblical musical drama film.The second film adaptation of the Bible from DreamWorks Animation and, to date, the only direct-to-video production they released, the film is an adaptation of the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis in the Bible and serves as a prequel to the 1998 film The Prince of Egypt (as the biblical ...
He told his brothers another dream, in which the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowed down to him, and when he told his father, Jacob rebuked him, asking whether he, Joseph's mother, and his brothers would bow down to Joseph. [8] Joseph's brothers envied him, but Jacob kept what he said in mind. [9] The first reading ends here. [10]
Jacob tells Joseph to keep the dream secret to protect him from the jealousy of his brothers, who are unhappy with Jacob's love for Joseph. [ 3 ] : 128 He foresees that Joseph will be the one through whom the prophecy of his grandfather, Ibrahim , would be fulfilled: his offspring would keep the light of Abraham's house alive and spread God's ...
Joseph identified by his brothers (1789 painting by Charles Thévenin). In the first reading, Judah approached Joseph, whom he likened to Pharaoh, and recounted how Joseph had asked the 10 brothers whether they had a father or brother, and they had told him that they had a father who was an old man (Jacob), and a child of his old age who was a little one (Benjamin), whose brother was dead, who ...
Joseph loves his brothers but feels that he is better than them. Their father, Jacob, loves Joseph the most because he is the son of Rachel, Jacob's greatest love. After Rachel died, Jacob kept Joseph close to remind him of his lost love. Joseph's brothers know that Jacob preferred Joseph over them and they hated the dreams Joseph would tell.