1. And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan wherein his father sojourned.
2. And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the dock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of and of Zelpha his father's wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.
3. Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.
4. And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
5. Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.
6. And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.
7. I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, end stood, and your sheaves standing about, bowed down before my sheaf.
8. His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.