Joseph’s Dreams

1 Jacob lived in ^gthe land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan.

2 These are the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought ^ha bad report of them to their father. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was ⁱthe son of his old age. And he made him ^ja robe of many colors.¹ 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.

18 They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them ^tthey conspired against him to kill him.