2. This is the account of Jacob’s descendants. Joseph was 17 years old and tended the flock with his brothers. While he was helping the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, Joseph told their father unflattering things about them.
3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he was born when Jacob was old. Jacob had made for him a long robe.
4. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of his brothers, they hated him and couldn’t even talk nicely to him.
5. Joseph had a dream and told it to his brothers, which made them hate him even more.
6. He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had.
7. When we were binding stalks of grain in the field, my stalk got up and stood upright, while your stalks gathered around it and bowed down to my stalk."