Now Israel(A) loved Joseph more than any of his other sons,(B) because he had been born to him in his old age;(C) and he made an ornate[a] robe(D) for him.(E) When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him(F) and could not speak a kind word to him.

Joseph had a dream,(G) and when he told it to his brothers,(H) they hated him all the more.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 37:3 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain; also in verses 23 and 32.

10 When he told his father as well as his brothers,(A) his father rebuked(B) him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”(C) 11 His brothers were jealous of him,(D) but his father kept the matter in mind.(E)

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