Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 37:3 in context
Genesis 37:1–6
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Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
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This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.
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His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
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Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
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He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
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