² He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.”^(A)

²⁸ Isaac loved Esau because he was fond of game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children because he was the son of his old age, and he made him an ornamented robe.^{[a](A) 4} But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.^(B)

²⁰ And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead; he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’^(A)