Joseph’s Life before His Captivity

37 Jacob continued to live in the land they were occupying, where his father had journeyed in the territory of Canaan. ² This is a record of Jacob’s descendants.

When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was helping his brothers tend their flocks. He was a young man at that time, as were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. But Joseph would come back and tell his father that his brothers were doing bad things. ³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his brothers, since he was born to him in his old age, so he had made a richly-embroidered^[a] tunic for him. ⁴ When Joseph’s^[b] brothers realized that their father loved him more than all of his brothers, they hated him so much that they were unable to speak politely to him.