Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.

A dream…​ These dreams of Joseph were prophetical, and sent from God; as were also those which he interpreted, Gen. 40. and 41.; otherwise generally speaking, the observing of dreams is condemned in the Scripture, as superstitious and sinful. See Deut. 18.10; Eccli. 34.2,3.