Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 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.” 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 […]
⛓ Read Genesis 37 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Joseph 'son of David' (v.20) receiving divine guidance through dreams faintly recalls the patriarch Joseph, the dreamer of Genesis — a 'Joseph who heeds dreams' typology Matthew sustains across the infancy narrative (2:13, 19, 22). Recurrence within Matthew lends some weight, but verbal volume is low, so contested.
Low confidenceJoseph the dreamer leads the family to safety in Egypt; Matthew's Joseph is likewise guided by dreams to and from Egypt. Distinctive shared name + dream-revelation + Egypt motif, but no verbal citation, so low-confidence and contested.
Low confidence