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.”