Daily Bread

Esau’s Descendants^(A)(B)

36 This is the account^(C) of the family line of Esau (that is, Edom).^(D)

⁹ This is the account^(T) of the family line of Esau the father of the Edomites^(U) in the hill country of Seir.

¹⁵ These were the chiefs^(AF) among Esau’s descendants:

¹⁹ These were the sons of Esau^(AP) (that is, Edom),^(AQ) and these were their chiefs.^(AR)

²⁰ These were the sons of Seir the Horite,^(AS) who were living in the region:

The Rulers of Edom^(BC)

³¹ These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king^(BD) reigned:

⁴⁰ These were the chiefs^(BJ) descended from Esau, by name, according to their clans and regions:

This is the family line of Esau, the father of the Edomites.^(BK)

Joseph’s Dreams

37 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed,^(BL) the land of Canaan.^(BM)

² This is the account^(BN) of Jacob’s family line.

Joseph,^(BO) a young man of seventeen,^(BP) was tending the flocks^(BQ) with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah^(BR) and the sons of Zilpah,^(BS) his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report^(BT) about them.

³ Now Israel^(BU) loved Joseph more than any of his other sons,^(BV) because he had been born to him in his old age;^(BW) and he made an ornate^[f] robe^(BX) for him.^{(BY) 4} When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him^(BZ) and could not speak a kind word to him.

⁵ Joseph had a dream,^(CA) and when he told it to his brothers,^(CB) they hated him all the more.^{(CC) 6} He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: ⁷ We were binding sheaves^(CD) of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”^(CE)

⁸ His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?”^(CF) And they hated him all the more^(CG) because of his dream and what he had said.

⁹ Then he had another dream,^(CH) and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars^(CI) were bowing down to me.”^(CJ)

¹⁰ When he told his father as well as his brothers,^(CK) his father rebuked^(CL) him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”^{(CM) 11} His brothers were jealous of him,^(CN) but his father kept the matter in mind.^(CO)