First book of the Pentateuch
Genesis 37: 1 - 10 narrative
of Joseph, son of Jacob and Rachel
CEB Study Bible (Common English
translation, published 2013)
Jacob lived in the land of Canaan
where his father was an immigrant.
This is the account of Jacob's
descendants. Joseph was 17 years old
and tended the flock with his brothers.
While he was helping the sons of
Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives,
Joseph told their father unflattering
things about them. Now Israel loved
Joseph more than any of his other sons
because he was born when Jacob was
old. Jacob had made for him a long
robe [ in the Septuagint Greek: a
many-colored robe ]. When his
brothers saw that their father loved him
more than any of his brothers, they hated
him and couldn't even talk nicely to him.
Joseph had a dream and told it to his
brothers, which made them hate him even
more. He said to them, 'Listen to this dream
I had. When we were binding stalks of grain
in the field, my stalk got up and stood
upright, while your stalks gathered around
it and bowed down to my stalk.'
His brothers said to him, 'Will you really
be our king and rule over us?' So they hated
him even more because of the dreams he
told them.
Then Joseph had another dream and described
it to his brothers, "I've just dreamed again,
and this time the sun and the moon and
eleven stars were bowing down to me.'
When he described it to his father and brothers,
his father scolded him and said to him,
'What kind of dreams have you dreamed? Am
I and your mother and your brothers supposed to
come and bow down to the ground in front of
you?' His brothers were jealous of him,
but his father took careful note of the matter.
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