The sermon text for today is

text for today is Genesis chapter 37.

Genesis 37.

Genesis 37. Jesus 37, verse 1,

Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournies,

in the land of Canaan.

These are the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, being 17 years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers.

He was a boy with the sons of Billa and Zilpa his father's wives, and Joseph brought a bad report of them

to their father.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons because he was the son of his old age,

and he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers

saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not

speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.

He said to them, hear this dream that I've dreamed. Behold we were binding sheaves in the field and behold my sheaf arose and stood upright and behold

your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.

His brother said to him, are you indeed to reign over us?

Are you indeed to rule over us?

So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said,

behold I've dreamed another dream. Behold the sun, the moon, and 11 stars were bowing

down to me. But when he told it to his father and to his brothers his father,

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