1. Now Jacob dwelled in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.
2. These are the genealogies of Jacob. When Joseph was 17 years old (he was a youth), he was shepherding the flocks with his brothers—with the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons because he was the son of his old age. So he had made him a long-sleeved tunic.
4. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak to him in shalom.
5. Then Joseph dreamed a dream and told his brothers—and they hated him even more.
6. He said to them, “Please listen to this dream I dreamed.
7. There we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field. All of a sudden, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.”
8. “Will you truly be a king over us?” his brothers said to him. “Will you really rule over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dreams and because of his words.
9. But then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers, saying, “I have just dreamed another dream. Suddenly, there was the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowing down to me!”
10. He told it to his father as well as his brothers. Then his father rebuked him and said to him, “What’s this dream you dreamed? Will we really come—your mother and I with your brothers—to bow down to the ground to you?”
11. So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the speech in mind.
12. Then his brothers went to graze their father’s flocks at Shechem.
13. Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers grazing the flocks in Shechem? Come, let me send you to them.” “Here I am,” he said to him.
14. Then he said to him, “Go now, and check on the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flocks and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the valley of Hebron and he went to Shechem.
15. A man found him there, wandering in the field, and the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
16. “I’m looking for my brothers,” he said. “Please tell me where they’re grazing.”
17. The man said, “They moved on from here. For I heard them saying, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
18. Now they saw him from a distance. Before he was close to them they plotted together against him in order to kill him.
19. They said to one another, “Here comes the master of dreams!