Genesis 37:19

“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other.

From Background Notes [BN] for Sept 13th & 14th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

No longer content to be angry or jealous or filled with hate, the brothers determine to make good on their ill will. This week’s text traces that determination to its penultimate conclusion. Once they allow the emotion to fill their hearts, it is difficult for them to imagine otherwise.

There is a close comparison to the story of Cain in Genesis 4. God favored Abel’s offering over Cain’s much like Jacob favored Joseph over his siblings. In response, “So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast” (Genesis 4:5b), to which Yahweh replied:  “‘Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?  If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it’” (5:6-7). What follows is the first biblical account of fratricide. [BN,2-3]

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