Genesis 37:1-5 ▼

1 Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had lived as a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

2 These are the records of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when he was 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 a bad report about them to their father.

3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a multicolored 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 on friendly terms.

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