Genesis 37:1-5 ▼

1 Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.

2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back an evil report about them to their father.

3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic.

4 And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and so they hated him and could not speak to him in peace.

5 Then Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; so they hated him even more.