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God speaks in dreams to Abimelech and Jacob; Joseph dreams of sheaves and stars in Genesis 37, interprets prison dreams in Genesis 40, and interprets Pharaoh's cow and grain dreams in Genesis 41.

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Objects

First mention

Genesis 20:3

Tags

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Genesis 20, 28, 31, 37, 40-41Divine warning

Scripture references

  • Genesis 20:3

    God visited Abimelech in a dream one night...

  • Genesis 20:6

    God replied in the dream...

  • Genesis 28:12

    He had a dream: there was a ladder, planted on the ground with its top reaching to heaven; and God's angels were going up and down on it.

  • Genesis 31:10

    Once, when the animals were on heat, I suddenly saw in a dream that the he-goats covering the females were striped or spotted or piebald.

  • Genesis 31:11

    In the dream the angel of God called to me, 'Jacob!' I said, 'Here I am.'

  • Genesis 31:24

    But God appeared to Laban the Aramaean in a dream that night and said to him, 'On no account say anything whatever to Jacob.'

  • Genesis 37:5

    Now Joseph had a dream, and he repeated it to his brothers, who then hated him more than ever.

  • Genesis 37:7

    We were binding sheaves in the field, when my sheaf suddenly rose and stood upright, and then your sheaves gathered round and bowed to my sheaf.

  • Genesis 37:9

    He had another dream which he recounted to his brothers. 'Look, I have had another dream,' he said. 'There were the sun, the moon and eleven stars, bowing down to me.'

  • Genesis 40:5

    Now both of them had dreams on the same night, each with its own meaning for the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were prisoners in the gaol.

  • Genesis 40:8

    'Are not interpretations God's business?' Joseph asked them. 'Tell me about them.'

  • Genesis 41:1

    Two years later it happened that Pharaoh had a dream: there he was, standing by the Nile,

  • Genesis 41:25

    Joseph said to Pharaoh, 'Pharaoh's dreams are one and the same: God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is going to do.