1 Jacob settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan.
2 This is the story of the family of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flocks with his brothers; he was an assistant to the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and Joseph brought their father bad reports about them.
3 Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long ornamented tunic.
4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his brothers, they hated him so much that they could not say a kind word to him.
5 Once Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers, they hated him even more.
6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had.