1 Jacob lived in the 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 a bad report of them to their father. 3 Now Israel ^vloved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe ^wof many colors.¹ 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they ^xhated him and could not speak peacefully to him.