Genesis 37:7 NIV
We were binding sheaves 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.”
Joseph got 2 dreams where his brothers bow to him. Second dream basically world bow to him.
Genesis 37:9 NIV
Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
Then the next moment he was sold to Egypt. Imagine putting yourself in Joseph shoes. I dreamt about everyone bow down to me then the actually happen I have sold to foreign country as slave. It is contracdic. What would you fell? Strange right?
Genesis 37:28 NIV
So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
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