1. Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
2. This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colours.
4. His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
5. Joseph dreamt a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
6. He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamt:
7. for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
8. His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
9. He dreamt yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamt yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”