Holy Scripture
Genesis 37:11
A church father on this verse
“And with these men let us also consider Joseph the chaste, whose honour towards his father and whose love towards his brethren were born of simplicity; for his brethren were envious of him and he perceived it not, they devised murder against him and he knew it not, and when his father told him to go and visit his bret…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
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9And he dreamed another dream, and related it to his father, and to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: as it were the sun, and the moon, and the eleven stars did me reverence.
10And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamed? shall indeed both I and thy mother and thy brethren come and bow before thee to the earth?
— Genesis 37:11 —
12And his brethren went to feed the sheep of their father to Shechem.
13And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed their flock in Shechem? Come, I will send thee to them; and he said to him, Behold, I am here.