Genesis 37:1-4
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Joseph Dreams of Greatness
37 Jacob settled in the land where his father had lived as an alien, the land of Canaan.(A) 2 These are the descendants of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. 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](B) 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.(C)
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- 37.3 Or (compare Gk): a coat of many colors; meaning of Heb uncertain
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