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.
7. There we were, binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf rose to an upright position, and your sheaves formed a ring around my sheaf and bowed down to it.”
8. His brothers said to him, “Are you really going to make yourself king over us? Will you rule over us?” So they hated him all the more because of his dreams and his reports.
9. Then he had another dream, and told it to his brothers. “Look, I had another dream,” he said; “this time, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”