Thanks Luke, that helps a lot. We realised that you can’t have Rachel and Benjamin both bowing down to Joseph, as the dream suggests, in their mortal life – as Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin.

This could mean that Jacob’s comment (‘Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?’ Gen.37:10) or at least his pondering (‘…his father kept the saying in mind.’ Gen.37:11) were towards the need of Rachel to be raised from the dead for this to be fulfilled.

I don’t think that it records Jacob physically bowing down to Joseph in Genesis (possibly Gen.47:31). However, Joseph bows himself with tears when they were reunited, ‘He presented himself to him (Jacob) and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.’ Gen.46:29

For me this raises another question, why would Jacob and Rachel bow down to Joseph in the kingdom? Something to ponder.