Genesis 37:9-11

"And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream; and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind."

Thus, Joseph's dream was doubled, and from this, it may be supposed that Joseph was enabled, at a later time, to recognize the meaning of Pharaoh's doubled dream regarding the cattle and the ears of grain. Whitelaw believed that this doubling of the dream "was designed to indicate its certainty."[12] "Even assuming that the dream came from the Lord, Joseph was foolish, and even arrogant, to tell it, not only to his brothers, but, this time, also to his father."[13] Morris also thought that Jacob probably had trouble accepting Joseph's dreams as anything except the product of Joseph's egocentric subconscious. Nevertheless, just as Mary treasured up all the things that the angel had revealed concerning the son Jesus, keeping them in her heart; so Jacob did here.

"And eleven stars ..." This has no impact whatever upon the question of whether or not Benjamin was yet born. The dream was prophetic; and, in no sense, was it limited to the literal circumstances of the moment.

The fantastic notion that the "twelve stars (counting Joseph also) were a mythical designation of the twelve signs of the Zodiac, as advocated by Jeremias and accepted by Skinner, "is too untenable to be regarded seriously."[14]

These dreams were literally fulfilled, first, when the brothers actually prostrated themselves before Joseph in Egypt. And, although it is not stated that Jacob prostrated himself before Joseph, he nevertheless accepted the support and protection provided by Joseph, endowments invariably coming from the greater to the lesser.