“And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.”
Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph's brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground. The bowing of the brothers — faces to the ground — is the fulfillment of the dream of the sheaves in Genesis 37:7. Twenty-two years after the dream that made them hate Joseph, the brothers bow before him. The application: the dream that seemed like adolescent arrogance was the prophetic word of God. The bowing that the brothers mocked is now the physical reality.
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