8His brothers said to him, |Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?| They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.


In Context

5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

6 He said to them, |Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.|

8 His brothers said to him, |Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?| They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, |Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.|

10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, |What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?|

Genesis 37:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:8And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

37:8His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?" And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

37:8His 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

37:8And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? Or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:8And his brethren said to him, Wilt thou indeed be a king over us? wilt thou indeed rule over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

37:8And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:8And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? and they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

37:8And his brethren say to him, 'Dost thou certainly reign over us? dost thou certainly rule over us?' and they add still more to hate him, for his dreams, and for his words.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:8And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? or shall you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.