1. Now Jacob lived in the land where his father was a foreigner, in the land of Canaan.
2. These are the generations of Jacob.Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers, and the boy was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
4. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
5. Now Joseph dreamed a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
6. He said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have dreamed.
7. We were binding sheaves in the field. All of a sudden my sheaf rose up and stood upright, and your sheaves stood around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”
8. His brothers said to him, “Will you really reign over us, or will you really have dominion over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words.
9. Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “I have dreamed another dream. The sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing to me.”
10. But when he told it to his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers really come to bow down ourselves to you to the ground?”
11. So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
12. Now his brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
13. Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.”He answered, “Here I am.”