Genesis 37:10 meaning and explanation

He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

Genesis 37:10, Berean Standard Bible

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Jacob, also called Israel, rebukes his seventeen year old son Joseph after hearing the second dream of the sun, moon and eleven stars bowing down. The rebuke is sharp, yet the wording is telling: Jacob says “your mother and brothers and I,” though Rachel, Joseph’s mother, has already died.

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